{"id":28726,"date":"2023-07-24T20:37:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?post_type=current-affairs&#038;p=28726"},"modified":"2023-07-24T20:37:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:07:44","slug":"zero-fir","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/zero-fir","title":{"rendered":"Zero FIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Context:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Hundreds of Zero FIRs registered in Manipur, leading to stalled investigations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About Zero FIR:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>FIR:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The term first information report (FIR) is not defined in the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973, or in any other law, but in police regulations or rules, information recorded under <\/span><b>Section 154 of CrPC is known as FIR.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Zero FIR: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When a police station receives a complaint regarding an alleged offense in another station&#8217;s jurisdiction, it registers an FIR.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The police station then <\/span><b>transfers the FIR to the relevant police station<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for further investigation. This process is <\/span><b>called a Zero FIR.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Origin of Zero FIR:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The provision of Zero FIR was established based on the recommendation in the report of the <\/span><b>Justice Verma Committee.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Justice Verma Committee was formed after the <\/span><b>2012 Nirbhaya gang rape case.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Purpose of Zero FIR:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To provide s<\/span><b>peedy redressal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the victim so that timely action can be taken after the filing of the FIR.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>News Source: <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/everyday-explainers\/what-is-zero-fir-why-it-is-registered-8854310\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>The Indian Express<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context:\u00a0 Recently, Hundreds of Zero FIRs registered in Manipur, leading to stalled investigations. About Zero FIR: FIR: The term first information report (FIR) is not defined in the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1973, or in any other law, but in police regulations or rules, information recorded under Section 154 of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/zero-fir\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zero FIR<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[2880,2879,2878],"paper-wise":[],"subject":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/28726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/current-affairs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/current-affairs\/28726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28726"},{"taxonomy":"paper-wise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper-wise?post=28726"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=28726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}