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Phone Call if not cryptic and Vague is FIR

Raj Kumar Makkad ,
  08 July 2010       Share Bookmark

Court :
Supreme Court of India
Brief :
Lodging of First Information Report (FIR) - Whether Phone Calls constitutes an FIR?
Citation :
Sidhartha Vashisht @ Manu Sharma v. State (NCT of Delhi) (Decided on 19.04.2010) MANU/SC/0268/2010

Held, Phone calls made immediately after an incident to the police constitutes an FIR only when they are not vague and cryptic. Calls purely for the reason of getting the police to the scene of crime do not necessarily constitute the FIR. In the present case, the phone calls were vague and therefore could not be registered as the FIR - It was properly lodged as per the statement of one of the witness PW-2.

 

 
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