FIR : All you want to know about in a criminal case
FIR - What is? The first information report is a report giving information of the commission of a cognizable crime, which may be made by the complainant (the term “Complainant” has been used herein the popular sense) or by any other person knowing about the commission of such an offence. It is intended to set the criminal law in motion. A First Information Report is the most important document and forms the basis of the case for prosecution. The word „First Information Report‟ has not been defined in the CrPC. By practice it has come to mean the information disclosing commission of a cognizable offence and recorded under Sec. 154 CrPC. The principal object of FIR is only to make a complaint to the police officer to set the criminal law in motion while the secondary objective is to obtain early information of an alleged criminal activity and to record the circumstances before there is time for such circumstances to be forgotten or embellished. FIR: Its Characteristics: