CHAPTER XII INFORMATION TO THE POLICE AND THEIR POWERS TO INVESTIGATE. Procedure in Cases where the police may arrest without a warrant. 111. First Information Report (1) When information is given to the officer in charge of a police station of facts pointing to the commission of an offence for which according to the third column of Schedule 1 the police are authorized to arrest without a warrant and which under the local limits of whose jurisdiction the police station is situated, he shall if it is given orally reduce the information or cause it to be reduced to writing in the prescribed form called the First Information Report and shall read it or cause it to be read over to the informant and every such information whether given in writing or reduced to writing as aforesaid shall be signed or sealed enter or cause to be entered the substance thereof in a book to be kept in the prescribed form called the Register of Informations. Provided that if the officer is satisfied that no public interest will be served by a prosecution he may refuse to accept the information and notify in writing the informant of his right to complain to a Magistrate under section 135. (2) When on any other grounds the officer in charge of a police station has reason to suspect the commission of such an offence, he shall enter or cause to be entered the grounds of his suspicion in a First Information Report and the substance thereof in the Register of Information. Note: See section 157 of the Penal Code for punishment for refusal to sign or seal statement made in giving information. 112. Procedure in such Cases. After complying with the provisions of section 111 the officer in charge of a police station shall act as follows: (a) he shall send to the appropriate Magistrate, in the manner set out in section 113 the First Information Report. (b) he shall forthwith proceed to the spot to investigate the case and if the offender is not already in custody take such steps as may be necessary for his discovery and arrest, or he may depute a policeman subordinate to him to do so and to report to him. Provided that: - 36