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| | (a) of the commission of or the intention of any other person to commit any offence punishable under the following sections of the Penal Code, namely, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 126, 296, 297, 371, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 418, 419, 435, 436, 442, 443, 444, 445, and 446; or | | |
| | (b) of any sudden or unnatural death or death by violence or of any death under suspicious circumstances or of the body of any person being found dead without it being known how such person came by death, | | |
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| (2) When any person dies while in the custody of the police or in a mental or leprosy hospital or prison, the officer who had the custody of such person or was in charge of such hospital or prison shall forthwith give information of such death to a Magistrate of the Magistrate's Court within whose jurisdiction the body is found and such Magistrate or an inquirer authorized by him shall view the body and hold an. inquiry into the cause of death and report thereon, if he is of opinion that the cause of death was homicide, to the Director of Public Prosecutions. |
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