Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 748 · Decided 12 November 2013
Lalita Kumari v. GOVT. of U.P. and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 748 · [2013] 14 S.C.R. 713
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 68/2008
- Decided
- 12 November 2013
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, B.S. CHAUHAN, RANJANA PRAKASH DESAI, RANJAN GOGOI, S.A. BOBDE (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Reference answered
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 166A; CrPC Section 154, 44, 157, 2(g); Constitution Article 21
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 154 - FIR - Registration of - Whether mandatory - Or requires the police to conduct preliminary inquiry to test the veracity of such information before registering it - Held: A B c The condition sine FIR is that there 0 must be information and the information discloses commission of cognizable offence - The reasonableness or credibility of information is not a condition precedent for the registration of FIR - The provision u/s. 154 is mandatory and therefore it is mandatory for the
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