HC asks Delhi Police to frame guidelines for lodging of FIRs

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has asked the city police to issue guidelines for registration of FIRs in an offence which are not committed here.
    
Justice Shiv Narain Dhingra said that the Police Commissioner needed to issue guidelines to all Station House Officers to file FIRs in cases where offences were committed elsewhere.
    
The Court, while ordering an enquiry against a station in-charge for filing an FIR in an offence which did not occur here, said such cases should be transferred to the place where the offence has been committed.
    
It gave the direction in the case of an alleged dowry demand, filed by a woman who was married at Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh to a Patiala-based man on November 22, 2005.
    
The Court observed that an enquiry was needed into why the FIR was not transferred to whichever place the offence was committed.

The FIR registered by the SHO of Malviya Nagar police station was the result of 'pressure or consideration' it said.
    
"On one hand police refuse to register FIRs of people living in Delhi and on the other hand, the SHO of Malviya Nagar Police Station registered an FIR on a crime committed in Patiala," said the Bench.
    
The woman in the case, after her marriage in Muzaffarnagar went to live at her husband's house in Patiala. In 2006, she returned to Hauz Rani in south Delhi and filed an FIR alleging dowry demand.
     
Her in-laws went to the High Court seeking quashing of the FIR or its transfer to Patiala.