Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 154 -- FIR - Delay of 17 hours - Absence of testimony of IO on record - In its absence, delay in lodging FIR cannot be said to have been satisfactorily explained...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 154, 157 -- FIR - Delay in lodging and delay in forwarding the same to Magistrate - Simply because there is delay in lodging FIR or forwarding the same to Magistrate entire prosecution case is not to be discarded - However, this is a material circumstance which is to be taken into consideration while appreciating the evidence on..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 154 -- FIR - No delay in lodging - Goes a long way in proving the case of prosecution...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 154, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- FIR - Murder - Unexplained delay of 10 hours in lodging FIR - Possibility of intervening period of 10 hours having been utilised by prosecution in manipulations and concoction of a false version cannot be ruled out...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 154 -- FIR - Delay of six days - Deceased remained in hospital for six days - Failure of doctor to inform the matter to police - Complainant was busy in trying to save the life of deceased - Delay of 6 days in lodging FIR not fatal...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 154 -- FIR - Not a substantive piece of evidence - Contents of FIR can only be used for corroboration or contradiction of the evidence of informant in the Court...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 154, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 25 -- FIR - Lodged by accused himself - Held, contents of FIR are absolutely irrelevant when it is confessional in nature and has been filed by the accused himself...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 154, 482 -- FIR - Quashing - Interference at the threshold in the FIR is to be in very exceptional circumstances when it is found that FIR does not disclose the commission of the offence - Such power to be exercised sparingly and in rarest of the rare case...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 154 -- FIR - Cognizable offence - It is mandatory for a police officer in a cognizable offence to record FIR - It is not permissible that it should be recorded after due deliberations or after inspection of spot...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 154, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Punjab Police Rules, Rule 24.1 - Murder - Information given to police - Substance of information entered in daily diary wherein name of accused and deceased disclosed but name of eye witnesses not stated - Held, mere non disclosure of name of witnesses in daily diary as well as mortuary..........
