<prompt> A woman died within 5 years of marriage under suspicious circumstances. Her parents complained that her in laws used to frequently demand for dowry. Under which of the following sections can a magistrate authorize autopsy of the case?SectionSection 174 Cr PcSection 176 Cr PcSection 304 IPC  <response>: B i.e. Section 174 Cr Pc Autopsy in general should only be conducted when there is an official order authorizing the autopsy. Authorisation an official order for a medicolegal autopsy is given by Coroner, police or MagistrateQ. Inquest in dowry daths should be conducted by a Magistrate section 176 1 CrPC or police officer not below the rank of Dy SP deputy superintendent of police. In all cases of unnatural death of a female with in 7 years of marriage or if she is below the age of 30 years, autopsy has been made compulsory section 174 3 CrPC and it has to he carried out by 2 medical officers in cases of death due to burns. So the facts written above make it very clear that both police officer above Dy SP and Magistrate can investigate inqueset a dowry death case; and both can authorize autopsy. But it is the section 176 1 CrPC which orders Magistrate inquest and thus authorizing magistrate for autopsy ; whereas section 174 3 CrPC makes autopsy compulsory in every case of dowry death and a death of 30 years of female. 