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 wide power as follows: - (1) Magistrate has power to direct police to register FIR. (2) Magistrate can monitor investigation. (3) Magistrate can order reinvestigation and re-opening of investigation on submission of final report by Police if investigation not done satisfactorily. (4) Magistrate, however, cannot direct C.B.I. to investigate. If a police registers a case and not conducting an inquiry then the Complainant can approach the Magistrate under Section 156(3) a Magistrate will ensure proper investigation. In cases where the Magistrate finds that the police has not done its duty of investigating the case at all, or has not done it satisfactorily, he can issue a direction to the police to do the investigation properly, and can monitor the same. Magistrate can order re-opening of the investigation even after the police submits the final report. Magistrate can monitor investigation to ensure that the investigation is done properly. No one can insist that an offence be investigated by a particular agency. An aggrieved person can only claim that the offence he alleges be investigated properly, but he has no right to claim that it be investigated by any particular agency of his choice. Daniel & Daniel Helpline:+919962999008

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