Code of Criminal Procedure: Investigation and Arrest MCQs 2026

Section 154 CrPC requires every information relating to commission of a cognizable offence given to an officer in charge of a police station to be

1. A entered in a book kept as prescribed and signed by informant ✓
2. B destroyed after twenty-four hours always ✓
3. C entered only for non-cognizable offences ✓
4. D recorded only orally without writing ever ✓

Under section 154 CrPC, if informant is unable to sign, the information shall be

1. A refused entirely always ✓
2. B entered only after magistrate approval always for every case ✓
3. C recorded only in summary trial register ✓
4. D entered verbatim and a copy given to informant free of cost ✓

Section 46 CrPC provides that in making an arrest the police officer shall actually touch or confine the body of the person unless he

1. A flees the country always without arrest ✓
2. B is a government minister always exempt ✓
3. C is a woman in all cases without exception ever ✓
4. D submits to custody by word or action ✓

Under section 46 CrPC, when a woman is to be arrested, unless the circumstances indicate otherwise, the arrest shall not be executed by

1. A any male officer at any time without exception ever ✓
2. B magistrate personally always ✓
3. C any person other than a woman police officer ✓
4. D complainant always ✓

Section 54 CrPC authorizes a police officer to arrest without warrant any person who has been concerned in a cognizable offence or against whom

1. A only civil liability is alleged always ✓
2. B a reasonable complaint or credible information or reasonable suspicion exists ✓
3. C only traffic fine is pending always ✓
4. D only defamation civil suit is filed always ✓

Section 61 CrPC provides that no police officer shall detain in custody a person arrested without warrant for longer than

1. A forty-eight hours always without magistrate order ✓
2. B twenty-four hours excluding travel time, without order of magistrate ✓
3. C seven days always without magistrate order ✓
4. D one week routinely without magistrate order ✓

Section 167 CrPC applies when investigation cannot be completed within twenty-four hours and requires production before

1. A sessions judge only always without production ✓
2. B high court directly always first ✓
3. C complainant privately always ✓
4. D nearest magistrate who may authorize detention in custody for a term not exceeding fifteen days total subject to law ✓

Section 103 CrPC requires that when search is made, two respectable inhabitants of the locality be

1. A excluded entirely always ✓
2. B called upon to attend and witness the search ✓
3. C chosen only from police force always ✓
4. D not required for any search ever ✓

Section 156 CrPC empowers an officer in charge of a police station to investigate

1. A cognizable cases without order of magistrate ✓
2. B non-cognizable cases without any order always ✓
3. C civil disputes only always ✓
4. D only after sessions court permission always for every cognizable case ✓

Section 157 CrPC requires officer in charge of police station on receiving information of cognizable offence to

1. A enter substance in daily diary and proceed in person or depute subordinate to spot to investigate facts and circumstances ✓
2. B wait for high court direction always before any step ✓
3. C record only and take no further action always ✓
4. D refer complainant to civil court always without investigation ✓

A cognizable offence under CrPC is one in which a police officer may

1. A not arrest without court warrant ever ✓
2. B investigate only after complainant withdraws always ✓
3. C not register FIR ever ✓
4. D arrest without warrant and investigate without magistrate's order ✓

A non-cognizable offence is one in which a police officer

1. A has no authority to arrest without warrant and shall not investigate without an order of magistrate ✓
2. B may always arrest without warrant freely ✓
3. C must always register FIR without magistrate ✓
4. D may investigate freely without order always ✓

Section 155 CrPC deals with information as to non-cognizable offences and requires police officer to

1. A register FIR and arrest immediately always ✓
2. B investigate without magistrate order always ✓
3. C enter information in daily diary and refer informant to magistrate ✓
4. D ignore complaint entirely always ✓

Bailable offences under CrPC Second Schedule are those in which bail is

1. A never available at any stage ever ✓
2. B a right and shall be granted by police officer or court ✓
3. C only within discretion of high court always without exception ✓
4. D forbidden until final judgment always ✓

Non-bailable offences under CrPC are those in which bail is

1. A not a matter of right but subject to court discretion under section 497 ✓
2. B automatically granted by police always ✓
3. C never grantable at any stage ever ✓
4. D decided only by complainant always ✓

Section 46 CrPC allows use of all means necessary to effect arrest when person forcibly resists or attempts to evade arrest, except causing

1. A any injury whatsoever always without limit ✓
2. B temporary restraint always prohibited ✓
3. C death of a person not accused of offence punishable with death or life imprisonment ✓
4. D handcuffing in every case always prohibited ✓

Section 54 CrPC clause relating to proclaimed offender allows arrest without warrant of person

1. A against whom only civil suit is pending always ✓
2. B against whom proclamation has been issued under section 88 and order of attachment under section 87 ✓
3. C who is witness in case always without qualification ✓
4. D who is complainant always ✓

Section 57 CrPC requires person arrested to be taken before magistrate without unnecessary delay and generally not beyond

1. A seventy-two hours always ✓
2. B twenty-four hours excluding travel time ✓
3. C one week always ✓
4. D fifteen days always without magistrate ✓

Section 58 CrPC provides that police officer shall report arrests to

1. A high court only always ✓
2. B complainant only always ✓
3. C no reporting required ever ✓
4. D district magistrate without unnecessary delay ✓

Section 59 CrPC covers discharge of person arrested when

1. A police always prefer charges regardless of evidence ✓
2. B magistrate is unavailable for one month always ✓
3. C no sufficient ground exists for proceeding ✓
4. D complainant requests always without inquiry ✓

Section 60 CrPC allows person arrested to consult

1. A legal practitioner of his choice ✓
2. B no lawyer until final judgment ever in any case ✓
3. C only police-approved lawyer always ✓
4. D only after conviction always ✓

Section 60A CrPC requires arresting officer to inform arrested person of

1. A only his family name always ✓
2. B grounds of arrest and right to bail where applicable ✓
3. C only court date without grounds always ✓
4. D nothing until trial ends always ✓

Section 162 CrPC makes statements recorded by police during investigation

1. A fully admissible as confession always without qualification ✓
2. B admissible as sole proof of guilt always without other evidence ✓
3. C never usable in any proceeding ever even for contradiction ✓
4. D inadmissible except as provided in the Code for contradiction or corroboration in limited ways ✓

Section 163 CrPC prohibits police from offering inducement, threat or promise when recording statements during investigation except as provided in

1. A section 154 FIR only always ✓
2. B section 103 search only always ✓
3. C section 164 before magistrate ✓
4. D section 561A only always ✓

Section 164 CrPC empowers magistrate to record

1. A only final judgment always ✓
2. B confessions and statements during investigation or before trial ✓
3. C only civil pleadings always ✓
4. D only bail bonds always without statements ✓

Section 165 CrPC allows police officer making investigation to require production of any document or thing from any person if he considers it

1. A necessary for investigation ✓
2. B unnecessary but convenient only always ✓
3. C for civil dispute only always ✓
4. D only from accused never from third parties ever ✓

Section 166 CrPC covers letter of request to competent authority for

1. A examination of witness or production of document in another jurisdiction ✓
2. B bail cancellation only always ✓
3. C civil execution only always ✓
4. D marriage registration only always ✓

Section 169 CrPC allows release of accused on bail when insufficient evidence at investigation stage if

1. A evidence is overwhelming always ✓
2. B offence is non-bailable always without exception ever ✓
3. C bail is not prohibited for the offence ✓
4. D complainant objects always without inquiry ✓

Section 170 CrPC requires police to forward accused to magistrate when evidence is sufficient and to

1. A withhold all documents always from accused ✓
2. B try case themselves always without magistrate ✓
3. C furnish copy of entries in case diary to accused ✓
4. D release accused without magistrate always when evidence sufficient ✓

Section 173 CrPC requires police to complete investigation and submit report within prescribed time to

1. A high court directly always first in every case ✓
2. B magistrate empowered to take cognizance ✓
3. C complainant only always without magistrate ✓
4. D defence counsel only always ✓

Section 103 CrPC allows search without witnesses if no inhabitant is available or willing to witness, but officer shall record

1. A nothing and abandon search always ✓
2. B reasons for absence of witnesses ✓
3. C only oral note without record always ✓
4. D complainant signature only always ✓

Section 102 CrPC allows police to seize property suspected to be stolen or found under circumstances creating suspicion of commission of offence and requires report to

1. A magistrate having jurisdiction ✓
2. B complainant only always without magistrate ✓
3. C high court always first ✓
4. D no report ever required ✓

Section 100 CrPC deals with search of closed place and allows breaking open after

1. A notice and refusal or inability to open ✓
2. B immediate breaking without notice always in every case ✓
3. C complainant request only always without warrant ✓
4. D verbal permission of neighbour only always ✓

Section 99 CrPC requires search warrant to be executed in presence of

1. A no witnesses ever required for any search ✓
2. B only at midnight always for every search ✓
3. C witnesses as provided and generally during daytime for dwelling house unless specially authorized ✓
4. D complainant alone always without independent witnesses ✓

Section 94 CrPC empowers criminal court to summon production of document or thing if

1. A only for civil suits always ✓
2. B only after acquittal always ✓
3. C only with consent of accused always in every case ✓
4. D necessary or desirable for purposes of investigation, inquiry, trial or appeal ✓

Section 91 CrPC allows court or officer in charge of police station to require production of document if

1. A necessary for investigation, trial or inquiry ✓
2. B only for non-cognizable cases always without exception ✓
3. C only from accused never third party ever ✓
4. D only after conviction always ✓

Section 55 CrPC lists cases in which police may arrest without warrant including person reasonably suspected of being a

1. A deserter from armed forces where applicable ✓
2. B witness in civil case always ✓
3. C complainant always without qualification ✓
4. D magistrate always without offence ✓

Section 56 CrPC requires police making arrest without warrant to report particulars to

1. A high court only always ✓
2. B district magistrate or sub-divisional magistrate within prescribed time ✓
3. C complainant only always ✓
4. D no one ever required ✓

Section 62 CrPC covers notification of substance of warrant to arrested person and requires showing

1. A only oral command without substance ever ✓
2. B no notification ever required for any arrest ✓
3. C warrant if so required ✓
4. D only after trial begins always ✓

Section 63 CrPC provides that warrant of arrest shall ordinarily be executed by

1. A complainant personally always without police ✓
2. B any private citizen always without court order ✓
3. C police officer within local jurisdiction of issuing court or as directed ✓
4. D accused voluntarily always without officer ✓

Section 167 CrPC total police custody remand generally cannot exceed

1. A one day always only ✓
2. B fifteen days without special statutory provisions for extended remand in certain cases ✓
3. C thirty days always without magistrate in every case ✓
4. D six months routinely without court order always ✓

Section 157 CrPC allows officer to refrain from investigating or depute subordinate when offence is

1. A always serious regardless of facts always ✓
2. B not of serious nature or investigation unnecessary ✓
3. C cognizable always requiring full investigation without exception ever ✓
4. D non-cognizable always investigated without order always ✓

Section 158 CrPC requires report when subordinate investigates under section 157 to be sent to

1. A complainant only always without magistrate ✓
2. B defence counsel always first ✓
3. C magistrate empowered to take cognizance and superior police officer ✓
4. D high court always directly only ✓

Section 159 CrPC empowers magistrate on receiving report under section 158 to

1. A always acquit accused immediately always without inquiry ✓
2. B always convict accused immediately always without trial ✓
3. C refer to civil court always in every case ✓
4. D direct investigation or hold preliminary inquiry or depute magistrate for inquiry ✓

Section 160 CrPC allows police to require attendance before themselves of any person within limits who appears acquainted with circumstances of case, but not

1. A males at any place always without limit in all cases ever ✓
2. B magistrates always without exception ever ✓
3. C witnesses ever under any circumstances always exempt ✓
4. D females at other than their residence in applicable provisions ✓

Section 161 CrPC empowers police to examine orally any person supposed to be acquainted with facts during investigation and requires such person to

1. A answer truly all questions except those exposing him to criminal charge ✓
2. B remain silent on all questions always without exception ever ✓
3. C answer only written questions always never oral ✓
4. D refuse attendance always without penalty ever ✓

First Information Report under section 154 CrPC relates primarily to

1. A non-cognizable offences only always without exception ever ✓
2. B civil disputes only always ✓
3. C tax appeals only always ✓
4. D cognizable offences ✓

Under Second Schedule CrPC, whether offence is bailable or non-bailable is determined by

1. A complainant preference only always ✓
2. B police station tradition only always ✓
3. C classification in the Schedule read with the Penal Code sections ✓
4. D accused financial status only always ✓

Section 55A CrPC imposes duty on person having custody of accused to take reasonable care of

1. A only prosecution witnesses always ✓
2. B only complainant always ✓
3. C only police property always without accused care ✓
4. D health and safety of accused ✓

Section 51 CrPC allows search of arrested person and seizure of articles found, other than necessary wearing apparel, subject to provisions of

1. A section 500 PPC only always ✓
2. B section 124A only always ✓
3. C no other provision ever applicable always ✓
4. D section 103 where applicable for search of place ✓