Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 — Section 154: Information in cognizable cases

154. Information in cognizable cases. Every information relating to the commission of a cognizable offence if given orally to an officer in charge of a police-station, shall be reduced to writing by him or under his direction, and be read over to the informant ; and every such information, whether given in writing or reduced to writing as aforesaid, shall be signed by the person giving it, and the substance thereof shall be entered in a book to be kept by such officer in such form as the

(2)Investigation into non-cognizable cases. No police-officer shall investigate a non-cognizable case without the order of a Magistrate of the first or second class having power to try such case 1[or send the same for trial to the Court of Session].

(3)Any police-officer receiving such order may exercise the same powers in respect of the investigation (except the power to arrest without warrant) as an officer in charge of a police-station may exercise in a cognizable case.