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| (1) 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, as the case may be, shall forthwith give information of such death to a Magistrate of the Magistrate's Court within the local limits of whose jurisdiction the body is found, and such Magistrate shall view the body and hold an inquiry into the cause of death. |
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| (2) For the purposes of an inquiry under this section a Magistrate shall have all the powers which he would have in holding an inquiry into an offence. |
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