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By an amendment to Section 174 of the Criminal Procedure Code a police officer has been given the authority to investigate the following cases without warrant:
– sucide by a woman within seven years of her marriage;
– death of a woman within seven years of her marriage, if there is a reasonable suspicion that some one has committed an offence on her before her death’
– death of a woman within seven years of her marriage, when any of her relatives make a request to the police officer to investigate the matter;
– in case of any doubt regarding the cause of death.
