Case Name : Lalita Kumari vs Govt of UP & Ors
Case Reference: (2013) 14 SCR 713 :
Case Number: WP (Crl) No 68/2008
Court: Supreme Court
Bench: 05
Coram: P Sathasivam, BS Chauhan, Ranjana Prakash Desai, Ranjan Gogoi, SA Bobde
Date: 12.11.2013
CrPC mandates compulsory registration of FIR in case of cognizable offence without conducting preliminary inquiry. (Para 29)
The sine qua non for recording an FIR under section 154 is the following: (Para 39): 1. There must be information 2. The information must disclose a cognizable offence 3. If that information is led before an officer in charge of a police station, the police officer has no other option except to enter the same in the prescribed form. The use of the word shall in 154(1) shows the legislative intent that it is mandatory to register an FIR
Refer also: State of Haryana vs Bhajan Lal
See also:
Act, Section
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