Bill No. 14 of 2015 The Code of Criminal Procedure (Delhi Amendment) Bill, 2015 A BILL To further amend the Section 176 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the National Capital Territory of Delhi in the Sixty Sixth year of the Republic of India as follows:- 1. Short title and commencement :- (i) This Act may be called Code of Criminal Procedure (Delhi Amendment) Act, 2015 (ii) It extends to the whole of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. (iii) It shall come into force on such date as the Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette so appoint. 2. Amendment of Section 176(1) In the principal act, in section 176(1) Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 after the words (1) when the case is of the nature referred to in clause (i) or clause (ii) of sub section (3) of section 174 and before the words the nearest Magistrate the following words or any case referred by the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi shall be inserted.
STATEMENT OF OBJECTS AND REASONS Amendment in section 176(1) of Code of Criminal Procedure is aimed to make enabling provision in the Act to widen the scope of Magisterial Inquiry. Under Chapter XII of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 various provisions regarding Information to the Police and their power to investigate are outlined. Under Section 174 of Cr.P.C in all cases of death by suicide, by homicide or killed by an animal or machinery or by accident or suicide by woman within 7 years of marriage or suspicion about death of a woman within 7 years of marriage or request of relative or deaths under suspicion that death has been caused due to an offence by someone. Police is to inform the nearest Executive Magistrate who is empowered to hold inquest (inquiring into unnatural deaths) and unless otherwise directed by any rule of a State Government /DM/ SDM. Thereafter, police is to investigate the unnatural death, submit their report to DM/SDM and send the body for post-mortem examination. In cases of suicides/deaths of woman within 7 years of marriage and in any other case mentioned in 1 above, the concerned magistrate may, in addition to or in lieu of police investigation himself/ herself investigate the death. In addition to police investigation as mentioned above, in cases of suspicious deaths, disappearances, alleged rapes in police custody, magisterial and authorized court custody, such case cases will also be inquired by Judicial Magistrate or Metropolitan Magistrates having jurisdiction in the area/matter. This Government does not want to limit the scope of the Magisterial Inquiry only to custodial death, homicide, suicide of a woman or death of a woman, but to any other act which the State Government thinks fit for a Magisterial Inquiry. This Government wants to widen its scope to cover any other cases of suspicious disappearance, rapes in police custody, suspicious death etc. ( SATYENDAR JAIN ) MINISTER OF HOME
FINANCIAL MEMORANDUM The Code of Criminal Procedure (Delhi Amendment) Bill, 2015 does not have any financial implication.
MEMORANDUM REGARDING DELEGATED LEGISLATION The Code of Criminal Procedure (Delhi Amendment) Bill, 2015 does not make any provision for the delegation of power in favour of any functionaries to make subordinate legislation.
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