Director of Public Prosecutions may require certain crimes to be inquired into 6 Indictable Procedure

Whenever it appears to the Director of Public Prosecutions from any information or examination taken by any magistrate that there are reasonable grounds to believe that any person other than a person accused is a principal in or an abettor of the crime therein charged, or whenever it shall otherwise appear to the Director of Public Prosecutions that there is reasonable ground for believing that a crime cognisable in the court has been committed by any person, it shall be lawful for him, if he thinks fit to do so, by writing under his hand to require any magistrate having jurisdiction in the matter to inquire into the case, and thereupon it shall be the duty of such magistrate to investigate the case, in the same and the like manner as if a charge under oath had been made before him.