Question

What is the meaning of Police Diary under CrPC?

Option A: Proceeding in investigation under section 172

Option B: Information recorded under section 168

Option C: Proceeding recorded under section 154

Option D: Statement recorded under section 161

Correct Answer

Option: a

Explanation

Section 172 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: Diary of proceedings in investigation (1) Every police officer making an investigation under this Chapter shal day by day enter his proceedings in the investigation in a diary, setting forth the time at which the information reached him, the time at which he began and closed his investigation, the place or places visited by him, and a statement of the circumstances ascertained through his investigation. (2) Any Criminal Court may send for the police diaries of a case under inquiry or trial in such Court, and may use such diaries, not as evidence in the case, but to aid it in such inquiry or trial. (3) Neither the accused nor his agents shall be entitled to call for such diaries, nor shall he or they be entitled to see them merely because they are referred to by the Court; but, if they are used by the police officer who made them to refresh his memory, or if the Court uses them for the purpose of contradicting such police officer, the provisions of section 161 or section 145, as the case may be, of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), shall apply.

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