Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 596 · Decided 13 December 2012
Yanab Sheikh@ Gagu v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 596 · [2012] 13 S.C.R. 1150
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 905/2009
- Decided
- 13 December 2012
- Bench
- SWATANTER KUMAR, MADAN B. LOKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 9(b)(ii); CrPC Section 154, 162
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - ss.154 and 162 - FIR - Requirements - Held: A FIR normally should give the c basic essentials in relation to the commission of a cogrJizable offence upon which the Investigating Officer can immediately start his investigation - On facts, Ex. 7 was not a FIR its but was a mere telephonic information inviting the police to the place of occurrence - It gave no 0 details of the commission of the crime as to who had committed the crime and how the occurrence took place - In fact, it was only upon reaching the place of occurrence that the Investigating Officer
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