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37. No police officer can assume jurisdiction as a officer incharge of a police station which is not notified in the official gazette. The police officer cannot discharge the role of an officer incharge of a police station which is not notified. Such a police officer cannot //22// also register a case in a place/office which is neither declared nor notified as a police station.

38. The concept of registering a zero FIR is distinct for the FIRs registered in the jurisdictional police stations. The victim can register a case in any police station irrespective of the jurisdiction. Such zero FIR would be sent to the jurisdictional police station for further investigation.

39. The cases on hand are distinct from zero FIRs. The FIRs were registered in a place/office which was not declared generally or specially by the State Government to be a police station. As such, the office where the crimes were registered against the petitioners cannot be considered as a police station defined under Section 2(s) of the Cr.P.C.,

40. The notification issued by the State on 14.09.2022 duly notifying Central Investigation Unit Anti Corruption Bureau Andhra Pradesh, Vijayawada as a police station with jurisdiction over entire state of Andhra Pradesh and issuance of GOMs.No.137, HOME (SERVICES-III) DEPARTMENT, dated 14.09.2022 cannot come to the rescue of the state in maintaining the complaints registered against the petitioners much prior to 14.09.2022.