Submission of final report of investigation by police in Court

---Court not vested with the power to direct police to submit challan under a specified provision of law---Mandate of law---Section 173, Cr.P.C. is the only provision in the Code of Criminal Procedure enabling the concerned S.H.O. to submit a report of the result of every investigation in the prescribed manner in the Court---No Court including the High Court has the power to override the said legal command and to direct the S.H.O. either not to submit the said report i.e., the challan or to submit the same in a particular manner either against only such persons as the Court desires or only under such offences as the Court wishes.

Ch. Khalid Mushtaq    Versus Special Judge (Admn.)
2010 PLD 114
LAHORE HIGH COURT, LAHORE