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Showing contexts for: section 158 of criminal procedure code in Madhuri Devi vs The State Of U.P Thru Secy., Home Deptt., ... on 21 August, 2015Matching Fragments
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22. Provisions of Section 158 CrPC detail the manner, in which report is to be sent to the Magistrate under Section 157 of the CrPC.
23. Section 159 CrPC provides as under:
"159. Power to hold investigation or preliminary inquiry.- Such Magistrate, on receiving such report, may direct an investigation, or, if he thinks fit, at once proceed, or depute any Magistrate subordinate to him to proceed, to hold a preliminary inquiry into, or otherwise to dispose of, the case in the manner provided in this Code."