committed in Goa or the part was committed in any place under the jurisdiction of the Ranpur Police Station. It is also not the case of the State that the offence is continuing one and it continued to more than one local area, including the areas under the jurisdiction of the Ranpur Police Station or the Court of the Special Judge under the POCSO Act. As such, there cannot be any application of Section 178 of the Cr.P.C. in the present case. Even, no act has been done in consequence of the offence, as referred under Section 179 of the Cr.P.C. Therefore, the State cannot derive any advantage by referring to Section 179 of the Cr.P.C. Section 177 of the Cr.P.C. is the appropriate provision to be referred and relied on for purpose of determining the local area or the jurisdiction of the Court. In this case what we have noticed is that, the police is totally befuddled in respect of the jurisdiction. But there had been no such reason to be. We have already referred several orders of the Special Judge. Despite that, the charge-sheet had been filed. Later on, when the Court insisted for appropriate action, another application under Section 173(8) of the Cr.P.C. had been filed by the Respondent No.3 to take leave from the Court for further investigation. It is really disturbing to note that, the police had deliberately continued the investigation having the total knowledge that they had no authority to investigate, as they were lacking in the territorial jurisdiction. In this regard, a reference can be made to Sections 156(1) and 156 (2) of the Cr.P.C. Section 156 (1) provides that any officer-in-charge of a police station may, without the order of
