Sunday, September 30, 2018

REGISTRATION OF SECOND FIR WHETHER PERMISSIBLE?


This is settled law that second FIR or subsequent FIR relating to the same case cannot be registered whether by the police in section 154 Cr.P.C. or through the orders of court under section 156(3) Cr.P.C.

The Supreme Court in its plethora of judgments time and again reiterated the law by holding that second FIR in same case cannot be registered, unless:-

The second is cross FIR or counter FIR of the first FIR already registered  or

Where the incidents are separate ;offences are similar of different or

Where the subsequent crime of such magnitude that it does not fall within the ambit and scope of first FIR, or

When investigation of one FIR is in no way dependent upon other, neither inter-linked nor interdependent, were lodged by different persons in relation to different occurrences which alleged to have been committed at different point of time against different people for different offences.

Anju Chaudhari vs State of U.P. and another (2013) 6 SCC384.



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