FIR

FIR—FIR is not a be-all and end-all of the matter, though it is undoubtedly, a very important document—In most of the cases, the FIR provides corroboration to the evidence of the maker thereof—It provides a direction to the Investigating Officer and the necessary clues about the crime and the perpetrator thereof—True it is that a concocted FIR, wherein some innocent persons are deliberately introduced as the accused persons, raises a reasonable doubt about the prosecution story, however, a vigilant, competent and searching investigation can despoil all the doubts of the Court and on the basis of the evidence led before the Court, the Court can weigh the inconsistencies in the FIR and the direct evidence led by the prosecution— It is not a universal rule that once FIR is found to be with discrepancies, the whole prosecution case, as a rule, has to be thrown—Such can never be the law.