Recording Of FIR Not A Condition Precedent For Starting Criminal Investigation: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court in Anjan Dasgupta vs. The State of West Bengal, has held that the receipt and recording of First Information Report is not a condition precedent for setting in motion a criminal investigation and the police are duty bound to start investigation when it gets information with regard to commission of crime.A trial court had acquitted an accused observing that the FIR was...