Section-172 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
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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