Gujarat High Court Criminal Manual (subordinate court practice), 1977
If a District Superintendent of Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police or other higher police Officer or other Gazetted Government Officer desires to inspect any of the records of a magisterial Court he should apply to the Sessions Judge or the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, as the case may be, who should call for the record and proceedings from the concerned Court and after inspecting them decide, in the exercise of his discretion, whether he should be permitted to inspect and take copies.