What to do if a FIR. is not registered by a police ?
Advocate K.P.Satish Kumar M.L. ( High Court, Madras) In case of a police is not registering a cognizable offence what a person can do. Today in many places police to receive a complaint and to register a FIR, bribes are collected. Poor persons cannot approach a Police station to register a case and put the culprit to be tried by the court of Justice. On such occasions people sought a help of an advocate to register a case. Sometimes even after the help of an advocate the police refuse to register a case in cognizable offence. In such situation a person can approach the Magistrate of who have jurisdiction to register the case and direction to the Police officer to do proper investigation under section 156 (3) of the Criminal Procedure code. When a police not registering FIR then the Magistrate has power under section 156(3) Criminal Procedure Code to order Police to register FIR though such power is not expressly mention in Section 156(3) Criminal Procedure Code A Magistrate has very ...