Inquiry by Magistrate into cause of death: Section-176 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898
The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898
(ACT NO. V OF 1898)
INFORMATION
TO THE POLICE AND THEIR POWERS TO INVESTIGATE
CHAPTER XIV
Inquiry by Magistrate into cause of death
176.(1) When any person dies
while in the custody of the police, the nearest Magistrate empowered to hold
inquests shall, and, in any other case mentioned in section 174, clauses (a),
(b) and (c) of sub-section (1), any Magistrate so empowered may hold an inquiry
into the cause of death either instead of, or in addition to, the investigation
held by the police-officer, and if he does so, he shall have all the powers in
conducting it which he would have in holding an inquiry into an offence. The
Magistrate holding such an inquiry shall record the evidence taken by him in
connection therewith in any of the manners hereinafter prescribed according to
the circumstances of the case.
Power to disinter corpses
(2) Whenever such
Magistrate considers it expedient to make an examination of the dead body of
any person who has been already interred, in order to discover the cause of his
death, the Magistrate may, cause the body to be disinterred and examined.
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