1. While writing an FIR, a police officer can not write any comment on his own.
2. In the case of cognizable offense, after registering the FIR, the police officer is required to read the information and the signature on the written information.
3. Copy of FIR should bear the seal of the police station and signature of the police officer. With this, the police also has given a written copy of the information that has been given to him in his register.
4. If a written complaint has been made against a cognizable offense, then it is necessary for the police to attach the copy of a complaint with the FIR.
5. It is not necessary for the person who is filing a complaint that he should personally know about the crime or that he should have seen the incident of crime, in order to file an FIR
6. If you could not inform the police immediately about the incident, then in this case, you only have to provide such delay for reasons.
7. Many times, police will begin to investigate the matter before filing an FIR, whereas according to the rule, first a FIR should be registered.
8. If you could not take the copy of the FIR when registering it at the site of the offense, then in this case police will post the copy to you.
9. If due to some reason the person providing information can not tell the location of the crime, then the police officer can ask questions about the arrival at the auction. After that, he will register a FIR immediately and will send him to the respective police station. The information about this will be given in the diary.
10. If the complainant does not have information about the site of the offense and police can also can not decide the place even after questioning, then also the police officer will register FIR and will start the investigation immediately. If during the investigation, the place of the offense is decided, then the case is transferred to the concerned police station.
11. If the person who has registered an FIR dies during the period of investigation, then the FIR may be presented in the court as Dying Declaration.
12. If some non-cognizable offense is deciphered in the complaint, then it has to be written in essentially day-diary. The complaint must take its copy as well. After that, Section 155 of CrPC, according to Magistrate can be contacted for appropriate order.
Now, we come to know what is FIR, how it is lodged, Why it takes time to file a FIR, what are the FIRs, What is Zero FIR etc related to other provisions.
