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Inquiry:

Section 4(K) of CrPC provides that inquiry includes every inquiry other than a trial conducted
under this code by a judicial magistrate or court. However in the PRB 1943 the word inquiry is
also used to the police investigation in the same concept.

Specific provisions of CrPC relating to inquiry:

1. Section 159 inquiry by magistrate upon a police report on suspicion of cognizable offence.
2. Section 117 inquiry by Magistrate as to the truth of information received against any person
(suspected, vagrants habitual offender) for keeping peace and good behavior.
3. Section 145 an inquiry may be held to determine the possession of a party to maintain peace
and tranquility in respect of an immovable property.
4. Section 176 inquiry by magistrate into cause of death in police custody or as mentioned in
section 174 of CrPC.
5. Section 177 the ordinary place of inquiry and trial shall be within the local limits of whose
jurisdiction it was committed.
6. Section 182 where scene of offence is uncertain or not in one district only or where offence is
continuing or consists of several acts, it may be inquired into or tried by court having
jurisdiction over any of such local areas.
7. Section 185 The High Court Division shall decide the district in case of doubt where inquiry
or trial shall take place.
8. Section 202 inquiry by magistrate or investigation by police officer or any other person as
per the direction of the Judicial Magistrate.
9. Section 205D inquiry conducting by magistrate will be stayed if police investigating is in
progress in respect of the same offence.
10. Section 375 the High Court Division may direct to take such inquiry by the Court of Session
or make further inquiry by itself in a death reference case.
11. Section 428 the Appellate Court may direct a Judicial Magistrate or if the Appellate Court is
High Court Division direct a court of session or magistrate to take further evidence as if it
were an inquiry.
12. Section 436 the High Court Division or a court of session may direct its subordinate criminal
court in a revision to make further inquiry in to any complaint which has been dismissed
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under section 203 or 204 (3), or inquiry into the case of any person accused of an offence
who has been discharged.
13. Section 464 a judicial magistrate shall inquire into the fact of unsoundness of mind and shall
cause such accused to be examined by the civil surgeon or medical officer as the government
employed for this purpose.
14. Section 508 in every case in which a commission is issued under section 503 or 506 the
inquiry, trial or other proceeding may be adjourned for a specified time reasonable sufficient
for the execution and return of the commission.
15. Section 517 When an inquiry or a trial in any Criminal Court is concluded, the Court may
make such order as it thinks fit for the disposal by destruction, confiscation, or delivery to
any person claiming to be entitled to possession thereof or otherwise of any property or
document produced before it or in its custody or regarding which any offence appears to have
been committed, or which has been used for the commission of any offence.
16. Section 526 the High court division may transfer case or itself try it whenever it is made to
appear to the high court division that a view of the place in or near which any offence has
been committed may be required for the satisfactory inquiry into or trial of the same offence.
17. Section 539B Any Judge or Magistrate may at any stage of any inquiry, trial or other
proceeding, after due notice to the parties, visit and inspect any place in which an offence is
alleged to have been committed, or any other place which it is in his opinion necessary to
view for the purpose of property appreciating the evidence given at such inquiry or trial, and
shall without unnecessary delay record a memorandum of any relevant facts observed at such
inspection.
18. Section 476 any civil revenue or criminal court may inquire into a matter in the interests of
justice if any offence is committed in relation to the proceeding of a court under section 195
(1)(b),(c) of CrPc
19. Police may inquiry in to a matter as it is envisaged in regulation no 458, 324 of the PRB
1943.