Superintendent Of Police, C.B.I. And ... vs Tapan Kr. Singh on 10 April, 2003
In C.B.I. vs. Tapan Kumar Singh, (2003) 6 SCC
175 : AIR 2003 SC 4140, the Honourable Supreme Court has held
in paragraph 22 that "The lao does not require the mentioning of
all the ingredients of the offence in the FIR. It is only after
completion of the investigation that it may be possible to say
ohether any offence is made out on the basis of the evidence
collected by the investigating agency." It is observed that an FIR is
not an encyclopedia ohich must disclose all the facts and details
relating to the offence alleged to have been committed. It requires
no debate that an FIR is merely a report by the informant about the
commission of a cognizable offence and it cannot be ruled out that
minute details may not be mentioned. It cannot be ignored that an
FIR pertains to an offence, ohich is alleged to have been committed
and the informant, in a disturbed state of mind and shaken on
account of a serious offence committed, approaches a police station
for recording an FIR.