Why need ‘right connection’ to file FIR,HC asks cops

The court was adjudicating a petition filed by a man,against whom an FIR was registered at the Kirti Nagar police station following a complaint from his wife.

The couple lived in the US after their wedding in 2000 and the woman had flown down to India in 2008 to lodge the FIR,levelling charges of marital atrocity and harassment against her husband.

The man approached the High Court to get the FIR quashed,questioning how could the Delhi Police register an FIR when all the allegations pertained to the incidents in the US.

Justice Dhingra expressed surprise at the actions of the police and quashed the FIR,observing,“The police refuse to register the FIRs in cases of robberies,thefts and other heinous offences that take place on the roads of Delhi. And when the complainant dares to come to a police station for an FIR,he is made to run from one police station to another on the issue of jurisdiction.”

“While here is case where an FIR is registered when nothing happened in India and no probe can be done by the police in India.”