Landmark case · Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, Juvenile Justice and Probation · Semester 5

Lalita Kumari v. Government of U.P.

(2014) 2 SCC 1 · Supreme Court of India

Police cannot avoid investigation of a cognizable case by treating it as a non-cognizable dispute once the FIR test is met.

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Investigation and the police report: BNSS 193 / CrPC 173 — Unit II, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, Juvenile Justice and Probation.

Related sections:

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, 193 — Report of police officer on completion of investigation (cf. s. 173 CrPC)
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, 180 — Examination of witnesses by police (cf. s. 161 CrPC)
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, 183 — Recording of confessions and statements (cf. s. 164 CrPC)