Police and FIR guides explaining complaints, investigation, arrest, bail and magistrate remedies in practical language.
An arrest is not a casual administrative act. Under the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, the officer must wear a visible name badge, prepare a memorandum of arrest, inform a relative, record reasons in writing, and produce the arrested person befor...
The new BNSS lets the police run a 14-day preliminary inquiry before deciding whether to register an FIR — but only for cognizable offences punishable with three to seven years' imprisonment, and only with senior officer permission. The Lalita Kumari rule h...
If a Station House Officer refuses to register an FIR for a cognizable offence, the law gives you three sequential escalations — the Superintendent of Police, the Magistrate, and the High Court. Each step is documentary, each step works.
A Zero FIR is the FIR you can register at any police station — not just the one with territorial jurisdiction. The SHO has no legal ground to send you away. This guide explains when to demand a Zero FIR, exactly how the procedure works, and how to escalate ...
Registration of an FIR is mandatory the moment a cognizable offence is disclosed. Section 173 of the BNSS sets the procedure; Lalita Kumari binds the SHO; and if the station refuses, three written escalations exist — the SP, the Magistrate, and the High Court.
A private criminal complaint under Section 223 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 [Section 200 of the CrPC, 1973] is the statutory route into the Magistrate's court when the police will not register an FIR, when the offence is non-cognizable, o...
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