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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
Delhi Gazette
SG-DL-E-31012025-260624
EXTRAORDINARY
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
DELHI, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2025/ MAGHA 8, 1946
[N. C. T. D. No. 364
PART IV
GOVERNMENT OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL TERRITORY OF DELHI
HOME POLICE-I/ESTABLISHMENT DEPARTMENT
NOTIFICATION
Delhi, the 28th January, 2025
F. No. 1/5/2024/HP-I/Estt./223 to 231-In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of Section
176 of The BHARATIYA NAGARIK SURAKSHA SANHITA 2023 (ACT 46 of 2023) read with Government of
India, Ministry of Home Affairs, Notification No. S.O. 2506 (E) dated 28.06.2024, the Lieutenant Governor of
NCT of Delhi is pleased to frame the following Rules: -
1. Short title and commencement: -
(i) These rules may be called as "Procedure for investigation to be followed by an officer in-charge of Police
Station, Rules 2024";
(ii) These rules shall come into force from the date of their publication in the official Gazette.
2. Definitions: - (1) In these rules unless the context otherwise requires-
(i) "Investigation" means the investigation as defined under clause (1) of sub-section (1) of Section 2 of
The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023;
(ii) "Magistrate" means Judicial Magistrate as explained in Section 3(1) of the Sanhita.
(iii) "Offence" means the offence as defined under clause (q) of sub-section (1) of Section 2 of The
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023;
(iv) "Officer in charge of a police station" means the officer in charge as defined under clause (r) of sub-
section (1) of Section 2 of The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023;
(v) "Police Station" means the place as defined under clause (u) of sub-section (1) of Section 2 of The
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023;
(vi) 'Sanhita' means The Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita, 2023;
(2) The words and expressions used in these Rules shall have the same meaning as assigned to them
in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
3. General Diary Report:
(i) General Diary Report shall be maintained by the officer in charge of the Police Station, in respect of the
offences, wherein he/she deems it necessary not to proceed to the spot in person or through subordinate
officer, to investigate the case as provided under clause (a) ofsub-section (1) of Section 176 of this Sanhita
or in cases where it appears to the officer in charge of the Police Station that there is no sufficient ground
for entering into an investigationas per the circumstances covered under clause (b) of sub-section (1) of
Section 176 of this Sanhita.
(ii) The Report mentioned in clause (i) shall be maintained on CCTNS (Crime and Criminal Tracking
Networks and Systems) and must contain the details as given in Annexure 'A' and forwarded to the
Magistrate fortnightly without fail.
4. In case the officer in charge of the police station has reasons to believe that there isno sufficient
ground for entering into an investigation, then he/she shall follow the procedure as provide under
Section 176 and shall also inform the same, alongwith reasons, to the informant without delay either
through electronic mode i.e. mobile phone, social media apps including Whatsapp, SMS (Short
Message Service), Landline phone, email or through physical mode. Mode of information shall be
entered in the report as referred in Rule 3.
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Annexure-A
• Name of informant
• Contact details of informant (phone number/email/etc)
• Present & Permanent Address of informant
• Brief of information
• Reason(s) for not proceeding to investigate
• Whether informant notified
• Mode of information.
by Order of in the Name and
Lieutenant Governor of NCT of Delhi,
KULVINDER SINGH, Dy. Secy. (Home-I)