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I cannot say whether it is my duty to record the names of the accused in the General Diary.

31. From this Mr. Somasundaram has argued that no names of the accused at all were noted in the General Diary entry about this case. The General Diary entry itself has not been exhibited for the defence. It is sufficient to say that under Section 154 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the substance of a first information has to be entered in a book in such form as the Provincial Government may prescribe and that under Madras Police Standing Order No. 538 the book prescribed by Section 154, Criminal Procedure Code, is the first information book in form No. 78 in which the present F.I.R. (Exhibit P-23) was admittedly recorded. The General Dairy entry need not give, as the learned Public Prosecutor points out, all the names of the accused in cognizable offences and police Standing Order No. 696 specifically says that details of complaints already given in the F. I. book and the case diary need not be recorded in the General Diary.