24th April 2019 - In her complaint, Smt Rajarshi Dutta (OC Howrah Thana), inter alia complained that advocates of Howrah District Court illegally assembled in front of HMC gate, blocked the road and assaulted DCP Headquarter. The violent advocates...
FIR
(i) Mere delay in Despatch of FIR to magistrate is not a circumstance, which can throw out the prosecution case entirely. [Pala Singh & vs. State of Punjab, AIR 1992 SC 2679] (ii) The delay is not necessarily fatal particularly when...
Wherever there is inordinate delay on the part of the investigating agency in completing the investigation, such delay, ipso facto, would provide ground for quashing the First Information Report or the proceedings arising therefrom. The above view is supported...
If an FIR once started, shall not be cancelled by the police, nor by the Magistrate. Recording of FIR means starting of an investigation of a cognizable case which can only be concluded in any of the following ways: By...
It is well settled that a First Information Report is not an encyclopedia, which must disclose all facts and details relating to the offence reported. An informant may lodge a report about the commission of an offence though he...
FIR CASE Registration of two FIRs in respect of the same incident is not permissible in law, for the simple reason that law does not prohibit registration and investigation of two FIRs in respect of the same incident in...
Since the General Diary/Station Diary/Daily Diary is the record of all information received in a police station, we direct that all information relating to cognizable offences, whether resulting in registration of FIR or leading to an inquiry, must be...
KEYWORD:- GD ENTRY-PUTTING WRONG SECTIONS BY POLICE IN FIR- The mentioning of a particular Section in the F.I.R. is not by itself conclusive as it is for the Court to frame charges having regard to the material on record....
Prompt and early reporting of the occurrence by the informant with all its vivid details gives an assurance regarding its true version. In case, there is some delay in filing the FIR, the complainant must give explanation for the...
KEYWORDS:-INVESTIGATION TO BE COMPLETED WITHIN TIME FRAME MANNER -DIRECTION BY MAGISTRATE- Registration of an F.I.R. involves only the process of recording the substance of information relating to commission of any cognizable offence in a book kept by the officer...
KEYWORDS : FIR- INVESTIGATION- Section 157(1) OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE requires an Officer Incharge of a Police Station who ‘from information received or otherwise’ has reason to suspect the commission of an offence-that is a cognizable offence-which he is...
What is the object of recording the FIR. The principle object of the FIR from the point of view of the informant is to set the criminal law in motion and from the point of view of the investigation...
