The Supreme Court criticized magistrates for routinely ordering police investigations without proper consideration from a Judge. It emphasized that magistrates should not merely act as "post offices" in forwarding reports and charges to other authorities. Magistrates have to apply their judicial minds in each case. The Court pointed out: Magistrates may order police investigations only when justice requires it. This is true in cases where they deal with complex allegations which cannot without police expertise be sorted out. And in each such instance, the order must be specific, clear about what type of offense is to be investigated.