Section 30:
Police Officer not to receive complaints of petty offences.
No Police Officer shall receive
any complaint of any petty offence; or take into his custody any person brought to him accused of such
petty offences, trespass, assault, quarrelling, or the like; and it shall be lawful for any Police Officer to
refuse to receive any charge of an offence of a grave character, if he shall on enquiry made of the
complainant alone, see good grounds for doubting its truth: Proviso.- Provided always that, if the charge
be not of such a nature as under ordinary circumstances would justify the Police Officer in refusing to
receive it, the particular reasons for refusing it are to be recorded by such Officer at the time.