How to lodge FIR? What to do if Police Refused to register FIR ? View FIR

FIR

Its Meaning, Form, Legal Provision and What to do If Police refuses a person to register the FIR?  

View Fir (Registered in Delhi) 

http://delhipolice.serverpeople.com/firwebtemp/Index.aspx

What is FIR? (First Information Report)

Fir is a written document prepared by the Police when they receive information given by a person or victim to the police official to register a criminal case against the accused (person who commit offence).

Mode of Information

Information can be given Orally or in Writing

Legal provisions of FIR

Code Of Criminal Procedure 1973

Section 154. Information in cognizable cases  

(1) Every information relating to the commission of a cognizable offence, if given orally to an officer in charge of a police station, shall be reduced to writing by him or under his direction, and be read over to the informant; and every such information, whether given in writing or reduced to writing as aforesaid, shall be signed by the person giving it, and the substance thereof shall be entered in a book to be kept by such officer in such form as the State Government may prescribe in this behalf.

Ingredients:

A.Information may be given orally

B. Immediate it shall be reduced to Writing ( In Delhi, All Firs are Computer Generated )

C. Information must be  Signed by the Person Given It.

D. Substance/ Information shall be entered in a book kept by the Police Officials.

FORM OF FIR IN DELHI AND WHERE TO GET THE FIR?

In Delhi, the FIR is Computer Generated means Typed Copy. 

It is easily available on the internet : 

http://delhipolice.serverpeople.com/firwebtemp/Index.aspx

What to do if Police refuses to Register the FIR?

Any person, aggrieved by a refusal on the part of an officer in charge of a police station to record the information  may send the substance of such information, in writing and by post, to the Superintendent of Police/Commissioner of Police concerned 

By:  Mohit Popli

Advocate