SCOPE OF INQUIRY UNDER SECTION 174 Cr.P.C

“The proceeding under section 174 Cr.P.C. have a very limited scope. The object of the proceeding is merely to ascertain whether a person has died under suspicious circumstances or unnatural death and if so what is the apparent cause of death. The question  regarding the details as to how the deceased was assaulted or who assaulted him or under what circumstances he was assaulted is foreign to the ambit and scope of the proceedings under section 174 Cr.P.C.”  (Pedda Narayana vs State of Andhra Pradesh  1975 (4) SCC153)