Criminal Procedure Code · s 18

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s 18Police officer bound to report certain matters

Every police officer and every District Officer shall forthwith communicate to the nearest Magistrate or police officer in charge of a police station any information which he may have or obtain respecting -

(a)

the occurrence of any sudden or unnatural death or of any death under suspicious circumstances;

(b)

the finding of the dead body of any person without it being known how such person came by his death.