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Section 335

Powers of Magistrate

of Criminal Procedure Code

ActIn forceProvision 294 of 459
Section 335

(2)

A Magistrate holding an inquiry under this Chapter if he considers it expedient that the body of the deceased person should be examined by a Medical Officer in order to discover the cause of death may, whether a post-mortem examination has been made under section 331 or not, issue his order to a Medical

Officer to make a post-mortem examination of the body, and may for that purpose order the body to be exhumed.