Section 338
Evidence and finding to be recorded
ActIn forceProvision 297 of 459
Section 338
(2)
The place in which any inquiry of death under this Chapter is held shall be a place open to the public. But a Magistrate conducting an inquiry of death may, on special grounds of public policy or expediency, in his discretion, exclude the public or any person or
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persons in particular at any stage of the inquiry from the place in which the inquiry is being held.