AUTHORITIES OF A POLICE OFFICIAL ON TAKING COGNIZANCE OF OFFENCES According to sections 154,155,156 CrPC. 154. Information in cognizable cases. Every information relating to the Commission of a cognizable offence If given orally to an officer incharge of a police station shall be reduced to writing by him or under his direction, and be read over to the informant, and every such information, whether given in writing or reduced to writing as aforesaid shall be signed by the person giving it, and the substance thereof shall be entered in a book to be kept by such officer In such form as the Provincial Government may prescribe in this behalf. 155. Information in non-cognizable cases. (1) When information is given to an Officer incharge of a police-station of the commission within the limits of such station of a non-cognizable offence, he shall enter in a book to be kept as aforesaid the substance of such information and refer the informant to the Magistrate. (2) Investigation into non-cognizable cases. No police-officer shall investigate a noncognizable case without the order of a Magistrate of first or second class having power to try such case [or send the same for trial to the Court of Session]. (3) Any police-officer receiving such order may exercise the same powers in respect of the investigation (except the power to arrest without warrant) as an officer incharge of a police station may exercise in a cognizable case. 156. Investigation into cognizable case. (1) Any officer incharge of a police station may, without the order of a Magistrate, investigate any cognizable case which a Court having jurisdiction over the local area within the limits of such station would have power to inquire into or try under the provisions of Chapter XV relating to the place of inquiry or trial. (2) No proceeding of a police officer in any such case shall at any stage be called in question on the ground that the case was one which such officer was not empowered under this section to investigate. (3) Any Magistrate empowered under section 190 may order such an Investigation as above mentioned. [(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-sections (1) (2) or (3), no police officer shall investigate an offence under section 497 or section 498 of the Pakistan Penal Code, except upon a complaint made by the husband of the woman, or, in his absence, by some person who had the care of such woman on his behalf at the time when such offence was committed.
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