All complaints to be treated as FIR

Dear Kiran,

This is nothing but an eye wash.  On the contrary what Government ought to have done was to made these demons in khakhi to have least expected decoram and decency towards fellow citizens by making them accountable for their act.  No body is touching the real issue.

Best regards

Daksh

I think it is a good move ,Kiiran ji. Even though it results in increased number of investigations by the police in false complaints, common man is going to get benefitted by this. Now , there is no way to make police investigate without FIR.  I think it is better if they  hv punishment option in case of  false complaints. It is time for Govt to take such measures so as to increase the levels of faith in the system.

And when they are made to give reasons for non registration, it also gives scope for accountability.

why it is not bringing transperancy in the dealing of police. like our regulators are doing now a days.

it should be made obligatory to police to pubish records and details of all complaints and  status of inevstigation,reason for not registration of complaint on their website or other mode.

in case matter is pending for many days they should he asked to give reasons for the same.

I wonder whether there is any thing new in this circular. The police is bound to register FIR if the complaint is of cognizable nature. Only Anti Corruption wing has power for pre registration enquiry based on SC rulings. As rightly pointed out by other members, this act is only an eye wash to cool down public fury against Rathode's insufficient punishment.

Police complaints will be used as a tool  to get even with enemies. Simultaneous orders should be issued to increase the strenght of the police and to bifurcate investigation work from bandobast , VIP security work and other misc work. Complaint should be in the form of affidavit , [ spelling out what a person believes on his own/ from infor and source of info etc] and persons making false statements on oath should be severly punished. 

This is nothing new. Government will alwyas issued such guidelines, directions etc and will be highly publicised through various media available to them, as if it is actively serving the public by such directions, only to be ignored one way or the other.

i think the government has to take certain steps to make all this possible......any communincation send through Electronic means like through E-Mail, SMS about the occurance of any offence should also be treated as Complaint....by this police officer has to take the congizance of the information received because the information will always be available on the servers for any future reference.....and this will ensure the effective/ transparent working of the police officer....

Unless there is punishment for not registering FIR, police will not respect the circular given by home department. It is time to make effective laws are set to punish erring officers severely.The new rule no doubt will be good for the people who have genuinely suffered, what about registeration of false cases to settle scores by chiding with the police officers for harassment with ulterior motives, and what about wrongful arrest,and installing hidden cameras in the police station to know what is actually going  on there.

Dear Experts ,

And if some one files a false FIR he is eligible for 10 years of life behind bars.

How much time it will take to prove weather the FIR is true or false ? till the order received from court the person cant apply for the passport nor he can go abroad will the above decision useful for the common people.

Once the FIR files on one person..his life will be made horrible and specially for the people those who are working in govt sectors the above decison will be a big hurdle for them.

Pls advice.

Aftab

The propaganda of MHA is an eye wash. Section 154 CrPC makes it mandatory for the Officer in Charge of the Police station to record the FIR in a cognizable case. If he does not Section 156 CrPC guides the aggrieved person. on the other hand scetion 157 CrPC gives vast power to OC of the P.S regarding the investigation or for closing the case without investigation. All these provisions are there in the CrPC. What is the new in the propaganda of MHA?