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 A superior administrative or police official, district clerk, or police officer holding the rank of police sub-lieutenant or higher in whose jurisdiction a criminal case has occurred or is claimed or believed to have occurred or the alleged offender resides or is required to be arrested, has the power to inquire into such offence.

Subject to the provisions of sections 19, 20, and 21, when a criminal offence has occurred in the jurisdiction of any inquiry official, it shall generally be the duty of such inquiry official to take charge of inquiring into such offence for the purpose of prosecution. But when necessity arises or for the sake of convenience, the inquiry official of the locality where the alleged offender resides or is arrested shall take charge of conducting the inquiry.

In any locality where there are several inquiry officials, it shall be the chief inquiry official of such locality or his substitute who takes charge of conducting the inquiry.

In the following events—

it is uncertain in which of several localities a criminal offence was committed;