Section 123(2) in Criminal Courts - Rules and Orders
(2)A presiding officer may find it helpful to examine witnesses at the scene of a local inspection. In this event he must record these witnesses statement at the time they are made and in the presence of the accused who must have an opportunity of cross-examining them. Under no circumstances it is permissible of a presiding officer who is trying a case to hold a kind of police investigation, questioning all kinds of people and hearing statements, which must to some extent influence his mind, neither recorded nor made in the presence of the accused.
