Police Act, 1861 · Power of police-officers
Section 45: State Government may prescribe form of returns
The [State Government] may direct the submission of such returns by the Inspector-General and other police-officers as to such [State Government] shall seem proper, and may prescribe the form in which such returns shall made.
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