Q. Section 159 of Cr PC empowers the Magistrate: (Solved)
1. to restrain police investigation and order magisterial inquiry when the investigation of a cognizable offence by the police is already in process
2. to order magisterial inquiry into a cognizable offence only in those cases in which the police decides not to investigate the case
3. to order magisterial inquiry into a cognizable offence where the investigation by the police is already in process
4. to order as per the police summary report
- b. to order magisterial inquiry into a cognizable offence only in those cases in which the police decides not to investigate the case