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Officer in charge of a police station
Officer in charge of a police station, includes, when the officer in charge of the police station is absent from the station-house or unable from illness or other cause to perform his duties, the police officer present at the station-house who is next in rank to such officer and is above the rank of constable or, when, the State Government so directs, any other police officer so present. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 2(o)]The sub-Inspector and other senior officers were away on other duty. A clerk attached to the station an 'officer in charge of the police station', Pyli Yaccob v. State, AIR 1953 Trav 466....
Police Station
Police Station, means any post or place declared generally or specially by the State Government, to be a police station, and includes any local area specified by the State Government in this behalf. [Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), s. 2 (s)]...
Musician, London
Musician, London. The (English) Metropolitan Police Act, 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 55, 'Bass's Act' [Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Police (Metropolis)'], repealing and strengthening the provisions of s. 57 of the (English) Metropolitan Police Act, 1839, enacts that any householder within the metropolitan police district, personally, or by his servant, or by any police constable, may require any street musician or street singer to depart from the neighbourhood of the house of such householder, on account of the illness, or on account of the interruption of the ordinary occupations or pursuits of any inmate of such house, or for other reasonable or sufficient cause;And every person who shall sound or play upon any musical instrument or shall sing in any thoroughfare or public place near any such house after being so required to depart, shall be liable to a penalty of not more than forty shillings, or, in the discretion of the magistrate before whom he shall be convicted, may be imprisoned for an...
Charge-sheet
Charge-sheet, a paper kept at a police-station to receive each night the names of the persons brought and given into custody, the nature of the accusation, and the name of the accuser in each case. It is under the care of the inspector on duty. Unless the accuser is willing to sign the charge-sheet, the accused will generally not be detained.--The expression 'charge-sheet' 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', Gangadhar Janardan Mhatre v. State of Maharashtra, (2004) 7 SCC 768 (774). [Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, ss. 170, 169 and 173 (2)]Military law. A four part charging instrument containing (1) information about the accused and the witness, (2) the charges and specifications, (3) the preferring of charges and their referral to a summary. Special or general court-martial for trial, and (4) for a summary court-martial, the trial record, Black's...
booking
booking : a procedure at a jail or police station following an arrest in which information about the arrest (as the time, the name of the arrested person, and the crime for which the arrest was made) is entered in the police register NOTE: The arrested person is usually photographed and fingerprinted at the time of the booking. ...
First information report
First information report, An information given under sub-s. (1) of s. 154 Cr PC is commonly known as first information report (FIR) though this term is not used in the Code. It is a very important document. And as its nickname suggests it is the earliest and the first information of a cognizable offence recorded by an officer in charge of a police station, T.T. Antony v. State of Kerala, AIR 2001 SC 2637: (2001) 6 SCC 181....
Identification
Identification, where a person is arrested on a charge of committing an offence and his identification by any other person is considered necessary for the purpose of investigation of such offence, the court, having jurisdiction, may on the request of the officer-in-charge of a Police Station, direct the person so arrested to subject himself to identification by any person or person in such manner as the court may deem fit. [Cr PC (Amendment) Act, 2005, s. 54A]...
Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English)
Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English), which repeals twenty-seven previous statutes on the same subject, makes provision for the constitution of a body to be called 'The Public Works Loan Commissioners,' who are authorized to make loans for certain public purposes which are enumerated in the first schedule to the Act. They are appointed every five years: see the Public Works Loans Act, 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 49). The Act of 1875 has been extended and amended by numerous Acts.Among the works for the purposes of which the Commissioners were authorized to lend money are as follows: Baths and wash-houses provided by local authorities; burial grounds provided by burial boards or, in Scotland, by either burial or parochial boards; construction or improvement of canals; conservation or improvement of rivers of main drainage; docks, harbours, and piers, and any work for which the Public Works Loan Commissioners are authorized to lend by s. 3 of the Harbour and Passing Tolls Act, 1861; impro...
Darogah
Darogah, the chief native officer at a police, custom, or excise station, Indian....
Station
Station, means any broadcasting station with studios or transmitters or both and includes a relay station. [Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India) Act, 1990 (25 of 1990), s. 2(v)]1. Social position or status 2. A place where military duties are performed or military goods are stored 3. A headquarters, as of police department 4. A place where both freight and passengers are received for transport or delivered after transport 5. A place where ships may safely travel, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1418....
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