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Final report, charge-sheet, the expressions 'charge-sheet' or 'final-report' are not used in the Code, but it is understood in Police Manuals of several States containing the rules and regulations to be a report by the police filed under s. 170 of the code, described as a 'charge-sheet'. In case of reports sent under s. 169, i.e., where there is no sufficiency of evidence to justify forwarding of a case to a Magistrate, it is termed variously i.e., referred charge, final report or summary, Gangadhar Janardan Mhatre v. State of Maharashtra, (2004) 7 SCC 768 (774). [Criminal PC, 1973, ss. 169, 170 and 173(2)]