3. The State has filed counter affidavit(s). Placing reliance on Annexure A to the counter affidavit, it is submitted that by the order dated 11/09/2023, Director General of Police of Bihar, Patna, has issued directions/ instructions to all Senior Police Officers for ensuring compliance of the amended provisions of the Cr.P.C which came into effect w.e.f. 31/12/2009. It is asserted by the learned State Counsel that the mandate of the Cr.P.C. is clear and it goes without saying that the Officers are required to ensure scrupulous compliance with the provisions contained in Section 172 Cr.P.C. When there is shortage of case diary, in the midst of the investigation in a particular case, and the Investigating Officer uses pages of another volume, then also he/she is required to maintain the sequence of paragraph number. One carbon copy is dispatched to the Inspector in NonSR cases, while in SR cases, however, the carbon copy of the case diary is dispatched to the Inspector, Deputy Superintendent of Police as well as Superintendent of police and entry in this regard is made in the dispatch register. On receipt of the diary in the Office of the Supervisory officer, it is also entered in the receipt register under due acknowledgment by initial of the Senior Officer. Overwriting has also strictly been prohibited in
