PROSECUTE THE SUSPECT
WHEN TO PROSECUTE THE SUSPECT. Duncan Abeynayaka – LLB, Attorney At Law CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 120. (1) Every investigation under this Chapter shall be completed without unnecessary delay. Where such investigation cannot be completed within fifteen days the officer in charge of the police station or the inquirer shall transmit to the Magistrate's Court having jurisdiction in the case, a report of the facts and the progress of the investigation at the end of the fifteen days and thereafter at the end of every period of fifteen days until completion of the investigation. (2) The detention ordered under subsection (3) of section 115 shall be for periods of fifteen days at a time. (3) As soon as the investigation is completed the officer in charge of the police station shall forward to such court a report in the prescribed form. If in the report there is no allegation that the suspect has committed or been concerned in the committing of any offence the Magistrate shall d