Gujarat High Court Criminal Manual (subordinate court practice), 1977
(1) When the Magistrate takes cognizance of an offence on complaint, the examination of the complainant and his witnesses, if any, should as far as possible, be taken immediately, as prescribed in Section 200 of the Criminal Procedure Code. (2) Except in cases contemplated in proviso (a) of section 200 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 care should be taken by the Magistrate, in conducting the examination of a complainant and the witnesses present, if any, under Section 200, to make the enquiry sufficiently full to enable him to judge whether there are any grounds for proceeding. No reasons are required to be recorded for postponing the issue of process. The Magistrate must record his reasons for dismissing a complaint under Section 203. (3) In petty cases of assaults, hurt, insult, simple trespass etc., and in non-cognizable cases, which are of private rather than of public interest the Magistrate should not ordinarily direct the Police to make an inquiry or investigation. (4) In cases of complaints of facts constituting an offence, the Court shall at the initial stage take care to see whether the offence disclosed is one out of which the Nyaya Panchayat can take cognizance and if so, follow the procedure indicated in section 241 of the Gujarat Panchayats Act, 1961.