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Police-officer may lay information, etc:- It shall be lawful for any police-officer to lay any information before a Magistrate and to apply for a summon, warrant, search- warrant or such other legal process as may, by law, be issued against any person committing an offence.2 * * * 1 The Bengal Chaukidari Act. 1856. 2 The words "and to prosecute such person up to final judgment" rep. by Act No. 10 of 1882, sec. 2 and Sch. 1 (b). 11 The Police Act, 1861 COMMENTS Any police-officer may apply to a Magistrate for a summon, warrant, search-warrant or other legal process against any person committing an offence.