“Can’t Lodge Five FIRs in One Case”, Delhi High Court  tells Police
“Can’t Lodge Five FIRs in One Case”, Delhi High Court tells Police
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The Delhi High Court has held that police can’t lodge five FIRs for the same incident and quashed four of them registered for the alleged offenses of looting and setting on fire a compound during the northeast Delhi riots last year.

The high court clarified that five separate FIRs cannot be registered for the very same incident as it is contrary to the laws laid down by the Supreme Court. While maintaining one FIR, it quashed the other four lodged in March last year at the Jaffrabad Police Station.

Justice Subramonium Prasad said, “It cannot be said that the incidents were separate or the offences are different. As stated earlier, a perusal of the charge sheets filed in the respective FIRs show that they are more or less identical and the accused are also same. However, if there is any material that has been found against the accused the same can be placed on record in the FIR.”

Advocate Tara Narula argued that all the FIRs are in respect of the same dwelling unit and have been filed by different family members and even the same fire brigade truck had come to extinguish the inferno.

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