this petition is whether under Section 154 of the
Code of Criminal Procedure Code, a police officer is
bound to register an FIR when ... register
a first information report in terms of
Section 154 of the Code of Criminal
Procedure, if the allegations made by
them give rise
Madras in Crl.M.P.No.2302 of 2003
filed under Section 482 of Criminal Procedure Code, (hereinafter referred
to as ‘ ... contained in Sections 154 to 157
of the Code or any other provisions of the Code. The scheme of
Sections 154
refusing to exercise
inherent powers under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure ( CrPC )
to interfere in an application for quashment ... appropriate case when
moved under Section 491 of the Criminal Procedure Code to give directions
in the nature of habeas corpus. In such a case
Section 154 of the
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 ( Cr.P.C .) which reads as under :
"154. Information in cognizable cases. -
(1) Every information ... commission of a cognizable offence satisfies the requirements of
Section 154 Cr.P.C. Thus there can be no second F.I.R. and
consequently
with Section
154 and other relevant provisions, this Court said:
"18. An information given under sub-section (1) of Section
154 ... them in the station house
diary and this is implied in Section 154 Cr.P.C. Apart from a
vague information by a phone call
officer in charge of a police station and recorded under Section 154 Cr.P.C.
3.7 A cryptic message on telephone etc. which under ... informant of the offence is a police officer;
5.2 As per Section 154 Cr.P.C., every information relating to the commission
of a cognizable
powers
conferred upon him under Chapter XV of the Code of Criminal Procedure
1973 (for short ‘Cr.P.C.’) under the Heading of “Complaints ... procedure prescribed under Chapter
XII of the Cr.P.C . to be adopted in a case based on police report and the
procedure prescribed under
Section 166A , IPC. It is
submitted that the procedural requirement to compulsorily
register an FIR was already existing in Section 154
... Chapter XII of the Code
of Criminal Procedure , 1973.
10. The Code vide Chapter XII, ranging from Section
154 to Section 176 , deals with information
modes for setting criminal
law into motion is by giving information to the police
authorities in accordance with Section 154 CrPC
whereupon ... contemplated under Sections 154(1) and 154(3) of the
CrPC but has directly gone to the Magistrate under Section
195A IPC was conceptualized as an offence distinct and different from
those under Sections 193 IPC, 194 IPC , 195 IPC and 196 IPC . Those
offences ... statutes, i.e., the IPC and the
CrPC , in the context of the offence under Section 195A IPC, we are not
persuaded
