law: Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929 
  10. Preliminary inquiries into offences 
  
  
  Any Court, on receipt of a complaint of an
  
  offence of which it is authorized to take cognizance, shall, unless it
  
  dismisses the complaint under section 203 of the 11[Code of Criminal Procedure,
  
  1973], either itself make an inquiry under section 202 of that Code or direct a
  
  Magistrate subordinate to it to make such inquiry.]