law: Code of Criminal Procedure Act, 1973
  
  2.Definitions.-
  In this Code, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires, -
  (a)"bailable offence" means an offence which is shown as bailable in
  
  the First Schedule, or which is made bailable by any other law for the time
  
  being in force; and "non-bailable offence" means any other offence;
  (b)"charge" includes any head of charge when the charge contains more
  
  heads than one;
  (c)"cognizable offence" means an offence for which, and
  
  "cognizable case" means a case in which, a police officer may, in
  
  accordance with the First Schedule or under any other law for the time being in
  
  force, arrest without warrant;
  (d)"complaint" means any allegation made orally or in writing to a
  
  Magistrate, with a view to his taking action under this Code, that some person,
  
  whether known or unknown, has committed an offence, but does not include a
  
  police report.
  
  Explanation.-A report made by a police officer in a case which
  
  discloses, after investigation, the commission of a non-cognizable offence
  
  shall be deemed to be a complaint; and the police officer by whom such report
  
  is made shall be deemed to be the complainant;
  (e)"High Court" means, -
  (i) in relation to any State, the High Court for that State;
  (ii) in relation to a Union territory to which
  
  the jurisdiction of the High Court for a State has been extended by law, that
  
  High Court;
  (iii) in relation to any other Union territory, the highest Court of criminal
  
  appeal for that territory other than the Supreme Court of India ;
  (f)"Indian"means the territories to which this Code extends;
  (g)"inquiry"means every inquiry, other than a trial, conducted under
  
  this Code by a Magistrate or Court;
  (h)"investigation" includes all the
  
  proceedings under this Code for the collection of evidence conducted by a
  
  police officer or by any person (other than a Magistrate) who is authorized by
  
  a Magistrate in this behalf;
  (i)"judicial proceeding"includes any proceeding in the course of
  
  which evidence is or may be legally taken on oath;
  (j)"local jurisdiction", in relation to a Court or Magistrate, means
  
  the local area within which the Court or Magistrate may exercise all or any of
  
  its or his powers under this Code;
  (k)"metropolitan area" means the area declared, or deemed to be
  
  declared, under section 8, to be a metropolitan area;
  (l)"non-cognizable offence" means an offence for which, and
  
  "non-cognizable case" means a case in which, a police officer has no
  
  authority to arrest without warrant;
  (m)"notification"means a notification published in the Official
  
  Gazette;
  (n)"offence" means any act or omission made punishable by any law for
  
  the time being in force and includes any act in respect of which a complaint
  
  may be made under section 20 of the Cattle-trespass Act, 1871( 1 of 1871);
  (o)"officer in charge of a police station">includes, when the officer
  
  in charge of the police station is absent from the station-house or unable from
  
  illness or other cause to perform his duties, the police officer present at the
  
  station-house who is next in rank to such officer and is above the rank of
  
  constable or, when the State Government so directs, any other police officer so
  
  present;
  (p)"place"includes a house,
  
  building, tent, vehicle and vessel;
  (q)"pleader", when used with reference to any proceeding in any
  
  Court, means a person authorized by or under any law for the time being in
  
  force, to practice in such Court, and includes any other person appointed with
  
  the permission of the Court to act in such proceeding;
  (r) "police report"means a report forwarded by a police officer
  
  to a Magistrate under sub-section (2) of section 173;
  (s)"police report"means a report forwarded by a police officer or
  
  specially by the State Government, to be a police station, and includes any
  
  local area specified by the State Government in this behalf;
  (t)"prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Code;
  (u)"Public Prosecutor"means any person appointed under section 24,
  
  and includes any person acting under the directions of a Public Prosecutor;
  (v)"sub-division"means a sub-division of a district;
  (w)"summons-case"means a case relating to an offence, and not being
  
  a warrant-case;
  (x)"warrant-case"means a case relating to an offence punishable with
  
  death, imprisonment for life or imprisonment for a term exceeding two years;
  (y)words and expressions used herein and not defined but defined in the Indian
  
  Penal Code (45 of 1860) have the meanings respectively assigned to them in that
  
  Code.