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Subedari PS registers 1st Zero FIR
The denial of registering First Information Report (FIR) by a station house office citing it to be beyond its territorial jurisdiction is passé now.
Warangal: The denial of registering First Information Report (FIR) by a station house office citing it to be beyond its territorial jurisdiction is passé now.
It seems that things started falling in place, apparently in the wake of storm surrounding the molestation and murder of Disha that shook the nation and demand for overhaul in the system.
A couple of days after the Telangana Government has decided to implement the 'Zero FIR', Subedari Police Station has on Saturday become the first to register the first 'Zero FIR' in the State, following a complaint lodged by Rajkumar Bura after his brother Ravinder's daughter went missing.
According to Subedari Inspector Ch Ajay Kumar, 24-year-old Bura Srividya left her residence at Govindapur under Shayampet mandal in Warangal Rural district at around 3 am on Saturday without any intimation to her family members.
The petitioner suspected the hand of Bhukya Devender Naik in the disappearance of Srividya.
However, with the news spreading that her family members had lodged a complaint with the police, Srividya met the Subedari police and told them that she had gone with a person with whom she was in love for some time. She also claimed that she is a major and has right to chose a person of her choice to wed.
It may be recalled here that the Justice Verma Committee had recommended after the December 2012 gang rape of a 23-year-old girl in Delhi that a Zero FIR can be registered in any police station where the information about a cognisable offence is registered, irrespective of the jurisdictional limitations and location of the incident.
Without numbering, such FIRs will be forwarded to the police station with jurisdiction, where it gets numbered and action initiates.
This is to rev up police to get on the job with utmost urgency, instead of dillydallying over territorial jurisdiction thereby allowing crime take place.
If the testimony of Disha's family was to be believed, the Shamshabad police could have saved the victim if they had acted on time instead of denying registering the FIR citing it to be beyond its territorial jurisdiction.
