Section 154 CrPC concerns the recording of:
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D.
1. Section 154(1) CrPC: 'Every information relating to the commission of a cognizable offence, if given orally to an officer in charge of a police station, shall be reduced to writing by him or under his direction, and be read over to the informant; and every such information, whether given in writing or reduced to writing as aforesaid, shall be signed by the person giving it, and the substance thereof shall be entered in a book to be kept by such officer in such form as the State Government may prescribe in this behalf.'
2. Lalita Kumari v. State of U.P. (2014) held that registration of FIR is MANDATORY when information discloses a cognizable offence; preliminary inquiry permissible only in narrow categories (matrimonial disputes, commercial offences, etc.).
3. Non-cognizable offences are recorded under Section 155.
4. Hence option A is correct.
_Source: Indian Penal Code 1860 / Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 / Indian Evidence Act 1872 (Bare Acts, indiacode.nic.in) — CrPC, Section 154; Lalita Kumari v. State of U.P., (2014) 2 SCC 1_
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