Section 108
Procedure in non-seizable cases
ActIn forceProvision 114 of 411
Section 108
(1)
When the information aforesaid relates to the commission of a non-seizable offence that officer shall refer the informant to a Magistrate.
(2)
No police officer shall in a non-seizable case exercise any of the special powers in relation to police investigations given by this Chapter without the order of the Public Prosecutor.
(3)
Any police officer not below the rank of Sergeant or any officer in charge of a police station receiving such order may exercise the same powers in respect of the investigation, except the power to arrest without warrant, as that police officer may exercise without an order in a seizable case.