First information report (FIR) as it is popularly known, is the act of registration of a criminal case, as soon as the information of the offence is received by the police station. It sets the criminal law in motion and it is a legal safeguard for the individual. The offence becomes an offence against the […]
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DailyPost 2985 SAMBHAL VIOLENCE (UP) – WIDER RAMIFICATIONS Though communal violence keeps flaring up in this country, its nature and causation has been changing quite drastically over the last four / decades. It starts from the Delhi riots of 1984 to Bhagalpur riots of 1989 to Gujarat riots of 2002, to the Sambhal violence only
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DailyPost 2964 DIGITAL ARRESTS – TELCOS AND BANKS ROLES The world of digital arrests revolves around the police axis. If we move further we tend to fix the blame on the victim; ignorance, reckless, not matured and what not. Governance as it is understood in this country puts immense responsibilities on citizens. For that reason,
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DailyPost 2938 DELHI DRUG CASES – HOW BIG IS THE DRUG RACKET? The two recent cases in Delhi, one from Mahipalpur and other from Ramesh Nagar in less than a fortnight has once again put the focus back on the nature and quantum of drug trade in this country. Has it been increasing or is
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DailyPost 2888 IS IT THE END OF THE ROAD FOR THE EXECUTIVE… Is executive an enterprise to provide day to day utilities, small and big, to provide necessary approvals / licenses, to make the polices as mandated by the legislature, run welfare schemes, execute beneficiary cash transfers and run administrative machinery at scale? This is
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DailyPost 2780 ASSURANCES INC. If something sells thick and fast in this country then it is an assurance. It is the hottest circulating currency of the ruling elite; the political class, political executive, permanent executive and any organization or person who has any capability to make a change. That nearly all the assurances have been
DailyPost 2408 POLICING – IN AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS The strong arm of the state, police, which performs policing task, in known to operating under the law, and some administrative control here and there was created only to facilitate its functioning. It was also to provide resources for its effective functioning. It was not meant to
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DailyPost 2407 F.I.R.ed Seventy-five years is supposed to be a small time in the life of a nation, but if in the same time a constitutional democracy is not able to establish the bare essentials of the rule of law, then there is an issue. And that too a serious one. With all the grandstanding
DailyPost 2403 THE ELUSIVE FIR First Information Report, FIR, is the most common abbreviation, known to everyone, regarding the criminal investigation, and the criminal justice system. Without getting into the legalese, it simply means that any information of a cognizable offence reported to the police, is brought down in writing and that becomes the gist
DailyPost 2311 PARTIALITY OF POLICE Is partiality of the police a fact of life? Or is just created by vested interests as put an institution in a tight corner. The fact of matter is that over and over again, the police have been alleged to be partisan, in a variety of ways. How much of
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