Cops to put new FIRs on website

Feb 01, 2011 |

Age Correspondent

New Delhi

The First Information Reports (FIRs) registered in Delhi will now be accessible online. The Delhi police will start uploading the FIRs on its official website from Tuesday. Police officers however said that FIRs on sensitive issues like terrorism, national security, rape, molestation and kidnapping for ransom will not be uploaded.
People can download new FIRs from the Delhi police website delhipolice.nic.in while an accused can get a copy from the police station by paying `25.
Senior police officers said that they are all set to upload the FIRs on website. “All police stations have been equipped to do it,” confirmed the police.
The move comes following a direction by the Delhi high court on December 6 last year that an accused is entitled to get a copy of the FIR within 24 hours of its registration and the police cannot deny it. The court had said the FIRs should be uploaded within 24 hours of its registration though it exempted the force from making public FIRs on sensitive issues.
However, whenever it does not make FIRs public, such a decision has to be taken by an officer not below the rank of deputy commissioner of police and they have to inform area magistrates.
An accused can apply for the copy of an FIR at a charge of `25 for four pages and an extra `10 for each extra page. “The accused can approach the police station in person or depute another person or his lawyer to collect the FIR registered against him,” said the Delhi police PRO, Rajan Bhagat.

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