§156 — Police officer’s power to investigate cognizable case

State amendments

This section has been amended in its application to Maharashtra. The text above is the central provision and is what applies everywhere else — these amendments are law only in the State that made them.

• Maharashtra[Vide Maharashtra Act 33 of 2016, s. 2.]Read →Hide

  Maharashtra Amendment of section 156.—In section 156 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, (2 of 1974) in its application to the State of Maharashtra (Hereinafter referred to as “the said Code”), after sub-section (3), the following provisos shall be added, namely:— “Provided that, no Magistrate shall order an investigation under this section against a person who is or was a public servant as defined under any other law for the time being in force, in respect of the act done by such public servant while acting or purporting to act in the discharge of his official duties, except with the previous sanction under section 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974) or under any law for the time being in force: Provided further that, the sanctioning authority shall take a decision within a period of ninety days from the date of the receipt of the proposal for sanction and in case the sanctioning authority fails to take the decision within the said stipulated period of ninety days, the sanction shall be deemed to have been accorded by the sanctioning authority.”.

Reproduced from the same official PDF as the section above, as the amending Act words it — not a consolidated State version of the section. Check the source before relying on it.