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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Delhi cops don't file FIRs in 90% of cases by Rahul Tripathi

Delhi cops don't file FIRs in 90% of cases by Rahul Tripathi

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published Published on Jan 1, 2010   modified Modified on Jan 1, 2010

Here's why it would be extremely embarrassing for Delhi to accept the Centre's ``advice'' that all complaints made to the police be filed as FIRs. If FIRs are indeed made mandatory, there would roughly be a 10-fold increase in the city's crime statistics.

A study of PCR call records in Delhi reveals that on an average, nearly 20 complaints of snatchings are received every day while more than 10 calls are made for robberies. These are incidents reported by the alleged victims themselves, but only 10% of these complaints get converted into FIRs - which go into the crime records. This year, for instance, nearly 1,300 cases of snatchings were registered as compared to 13,500 calls made, while 450 robbery cases were registered out of 3,000 calls received.

The police have been given the power to use their discretion in filing FIRs to keep out frivolous and false complaints. But in the case of Delhi Police, it's clearly being used to make crime statistics look good on paper. As a result, genuine victims of crime don't get redress and are often harassed.

Take the case of Charan Singh (30), who works with a finance company at Connaught Place. He was allegedly robbed by three unidentified men near the Dwarka sector 14 Metro station while returning home.

He says the armed men took away Rs 6,000, a gold chain and a mobile phone. Singh made a PCR call to report the incident, but a month has gone by without a case being registered.

``Police said they will inform me whenever they find my valuables. No FIR was registered and they just gave me a stamped copy of my complaint,'' Singh said.

On November 2, a biker gang allegedly snatched a gold chain worth Rs 45,000 from Nisha Jain at the Shanti Vihar area of Anand Vihar in east Delhi. Her husband Anand, a software professional, filed a complaint but said that more than one month after the incident, he is yet to hear from cops. ``The police intimidated me saying that we will have to appear in court if an FIR is lodged in the case,'' he added.

``The issue of non-registration of incidents was recently raised before home minister P Chidambaram during the Intelligence Bureau centenary endowment meeting. He also learned at the meeting that there had been a long delay in filing of the case against top cop SPS Rathore in the Ruchika case. This prompted the ministry to issue an advisory to states and UTs,'' said an officer who was part of the meet.

TOI contacted several people who were victims of crime in the past few months and each one of them said they were still waiting for justice and their cases to be registered. Here are some illustrative cases:

* Parwati Singh was carrying Rs 25,000 when two goons on a bike took away the cash near Pocket H of Seemapuri. Her daughter Shakuntala, who works with a private company, told TOI, ``The incident took place on November 1. My mother was going to deposit the money in a bank when it was snatched. We haven't heard from the cops yet, neither has an FIR been registered.''

* Kiran Mehta, a resident of Maurya Enclave, had a similar tale. Two men on a bike snatched her purse containing Rs 5,000, a voter ID card and three pairs of silver anklets near Radhapuri Lane in Maurya Enclave on November 2. Mehta's brother said, ``We have still not been able to get an FIR registered. The police asked me to come and collect a non-cognizable receipt (NCR) about the lost documents.''

* Parkash, an employee in a private company, was allegedly robbed of Rs 5,700 by three men near Rajokri village in south Delhi. He suffered head injuries and was admitted to the trauma centre on November 11. But more than a month after the incident, the police have not filed a FIR in the robbery case. Parkash's friend Ajay said, ``We have not received any FIR though we had filed a complaint with the police at Vasant Kunj.''

* Sahib, a 26-year-old factory employee was robbed by eight persons of his gold chain at Bharat Nagar in northwest Delhi on October 20. The PCR recorded the call as a dacoity. But even after two months, no case has been registered. Sahib's sister-in-law Neena, said, ``The SHO of the area called us and made us identify three persons but we never got our gold chain back. They did not register any FIR and we do not want to pursue the matter further.''


The Times of India, 2 January, 2010, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Delhi-cops-dont-file-FIRs-in-90-of-cases/articleshow/5403255.cms
 

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