Examination of witnesses by police
The
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898
(ACT
NO. V OF 1898)
INFORMATION
TO THE POLICE AND THEIR POWERS TO INVESTIGATE
CHAPTER
XIV
Examination of witnesses by police
161.(1) Any police-officer making an
investigation under this Chapter or any police-officer not below such rank as
the Government may, by general or special order, prescribe in this behalf,
acting on the requisition of such officer may examine orally any person
supposed to be acquainted with the facts and circumstances of the case.
(2) Such person shall be bound to answer all
questions relating to such case put to him by such officer, other than
questions the answers to which would have a tendency to expose him to a
criminal charge or to a penalty or forfeiture.
(3) The police-officer may reduce into writing
any statement made to him in the course of an examination under this section,
and if he does so he shall make a separate record of the statement, of each
such person whose statement he records.
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