A cryptic phone call without complete information or containing part-information about the commission of a cognizable offence cannot always be treated as an FIR. This proposition has been accepted by this Court in T.T. Antony v. State of Kerala-5...
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n Harjinder Singh v. State of Punjab and Ors., (1985) 1 SCC 422 the question was whether the Court should in the facts and circumstances of the case direct that the two cases should be tried together but not...
A cardinal question of public importance and one that is likely to arise more often than not in relation to the lodging of the First Information Report (FIR) with the aid of Section 156(3) of the Code of Criminal...
Legal position is that there cannot be two FIRs against the same accused in respect of the same case. But when there are rival versions in respect of the same episode, they would normally take the shape of two...
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of Section 5 read with Section 6 of the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946 (Act No. 25 of 1946) the Central Government, with the consent of the State Government...
Failure of the prosecution to provide any explanation much less a plausible one shows that the investigating agency had no clue about the perpetrators of the crime at the time when it reached the spot or soon thereafter nor...
He had barely covered six or seven steps when a person whose name I learnt later as Narayan Vinayak Godse, resident of Poona, stepped closer and fired three shots from a pistol at the Mahatma from barely 2 /...
Second FIR - filing another FIR in respect of the same incident having a different version of events is permissible. (Vide: Ram Lal Narang v. State (Delhi Admn.), AIR 1979 SC 1791; Sudhir and Ors., v. State of M.P....
In connection with the Howrah Court violence, one Debasish Panja lodged an FIR by saying that he was abducted by advocates on 24.04.2019 at 5.00 PM and taken inside the Civil Court Complex. He was manhandled by the advocates...
The FIR lodged by the Secretary of the Howrah Criminal Bar Library is contradictory in view of the other connected FIRs filed by the security guards and by one Asish Kr Dinda(Advocate). These show that the fighting started with...
Uniformed Advocates of Howrah Court attacked ABP Ananda reporters: said the FIR dated 24.04.2019
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A violent mob of lawyers in their court uniform attacked Sree Summit Halder around 2.00 PM on 24.04 2019, while he was reporting for ABP Ananda from HMC area, on the pretext that he was reporting some misleading news...
On 24.04.2029, the president of the HMC workers union, Shree Guru Charan Chatterjee lodged an FIR, inter alia mentioning that some unidentified advocates while parking their motorbikes at the HMC premises, started quarreling with the security guard and in...
