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Just days before filing a zero FIR report in relation to May 4 incidentwhere two women from Manipuri were stripped and displayed in Thoubal district of the state, another FIR zero was registered at the same police station – relating to kidnapping, rape and alleged murder Two Cookie Zumi women. Also in this case, it took more than a month for the authorities to transfer the complaint to the relevant police station in Imphal East.
The incident occurred on 5 May, when two young Koki Zumi women, aged 21 and 24, who worked at a car wash in Imphal East, were “brutally murdered” in their rented accommodation “after being raped and gruesomely tortured by some unknown persons”, believed to number “between 100 and 200”. On May 16, based on the statement of the younger victim’s mother, “zero flight information” was recorded at Saikul Police Station in Kangbokbe district – the hometown of the two victims.
It was not until June 13 that this flight information was transmitted to Borumat Police Station in Imphal East. While the victims’ family told Indian Express that they did not know if any breakthrough had been made in the investigation, police sources said that no arrests had been made so far in the case.
What is zero area information?
When a police station receives a complaint regarding an alleged crime committed within the jurisdiction of another police station, it records an FIR and then forwards it to the relevant police station for further investigation.
This is called zero FIR. No normal FIR number is given. After receiving the zero FIR, the vengeful police station records a new FIR and starts the investigation.
When was the FIR Zero provision created?
The Zero FIR ruling followed the recommendation in the report of the Verma Justice Commission, which was set up to propose amendments to the Criminal Code in a bid to provide faster trial and enhanced punishment for offenders accused of sexual assaults against women, according to a 2020 circular issued by the Puducherry government. The committee has been formed yet Nirbhaya Grange case of 2012.
The circular added: “The article states: “The victim can file a zero FIR report at any police station, regardless of his place of residence or where the crime occurred.”
What is the purpose of the zero FIR?
The point of no FIR is to ensure that the victim does not have to run from pole to pole to register a police complaint. This provision aims to provide prompt compensation to the victim so that action can be taken in a timely manner after the submission of the FIR.
What is the FIR?
The term First Information Report (FIR) is not defined in Indian Penal Code (IPC), Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), 1973, or any other law, but in police regulations or rules, information recorded under Section 154 of CPC is known as First Information Report (FIR).
Section 154 (“Information in identifiable cases”) provides that “All information relating to the commission of an identifiable offense, if given orally to an officer in charge of a police station, shall be condensed in writing by him or at his direction, and read to the informant; and all such information, whether given in writing or condensed to writing as above, shall be signed by the person giving it, and its content shall be entered in a book kept by such official in such form as the State Government may specify.”
Also, “a copy of the information as it is recorded… shall be delivered promptly, free of charge, to the informant.” In substance then, there are three important elements of an FIR: (1) the information must relate to the commission of an identifiable offence, (2) it must be given in writing or orally to the Chief of Police Station, (3) it must be written down and signed by the informant, and its main points must be recorded in a daily diary.
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