BNSS 192 — Diary of proceedings in investigation.

Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

Statutory text

(1) Every police officer making an investigation under
this Chapter shall 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) The statements of witnesses recorded during the course of investigation under section 180 shall be
inserted in the case diary.
(3) The diary referred to in sub-section (1) shall be a volume and duly paginated.
(4) 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.
(5) 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  148  or  section  164,  as  the  case  may  be,  of  the  Bharatiya
Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, shall apply.

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