Case Diary(CD)
The
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898
(ACT
NO. V OF 1898)
INFORMATION
TO THE POLICE AND THEIR POWERS TO INVESTIGATE
CHAPTER
XIV
Diary of proceedings in investigation
172.(1) Every police-officers making an
investigation under this Chapter shall day by day enter his proceedings in the
investigation in a diary setting forth the time at which the information
reached him, the time at which he began and closed his investigation, the place
or places visited by him, and a statement of the circumstances ascertained
through his investigation.
(2) Any Criminal Court may send for the
police-diaries of a case under inquiry or trial in such Court and may use such
diaries, not as evidence in the case, but to aid it in such inquiry or trial.
Neither the accused nor his agents shall be entitled to call for such diaries,
not shall he or they be entitled to see them merely because they are referred
to by the Court; but, if they are used by the police-officer who made them, to
refresh his memory or if the Court uses them for the purpose of contradicting
such police-officer, the provisions of the Evidence Act, 1872, section 161 or section 145,
as the case may be, shall apply.
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