Section 377(k) in Police Regulations, Bengal , 1943
(k)The diary shall also be maintained at each outpost and be written by the officer-in-charge with carbon paper. In addition to entries concerning patrol work, the diary shall contain information regarding important matters coping to notice and the presence of suspicious characters, gamblers, swindlers, foreigners or members of wandering gangs. Cases that may be reported to such outpost shall also be recorded but no details need be given except a statement on the following lines: "A. B. came to the outpost at 08-00, and reported a burglary in his house last night. The complainant is sent with constable X. Y. to the police-station." The diary shall be submitted daily to the officer-in-charge of the parent police-station where it shall be perused and filed after necessary action has been taken. If these diaries are written in Hindi, officers-in-charge of police-stations will have them read out to them by one of their up-country constables.
