Section 180 IPC applies only if the person making a statement refuses to sign it when legally required to do so by a competent public servant: SC
The Court reprimanded the DSP and said that a DSP, ought to know that in terms of Section 162 of Cr.PC, no statement made by a person to a police officer in the course of any investigation, which is reduced to writing, is required to be signed by the person making the statement.