What Happens To An FIR If The Complainant Dies?
The state brings charges against the accused on behalf of the victim or society because it is generally established that crime is against society as a whole. However, there may be some odd circumstances where the person who files the First Information Report with the police, who may simply be a witness who witnessed the incident, or he may be a victim himself, or in some cases, he may be the person who neither suffered the incident nor saw it but went and filed the report based solely on hearsay information, dies before he can actually prove it in court during the trial. Value of a FIR as Evidence The legal consensus is that a FIR is not a reliable source of information. It can only be used to support other evidence or assess the reliability of a witness or informant. For the simple reason that a delay may be seen as an afterthought and it alerts the courts to the possibility of a bad purpose or fabrication of facts, the F.I.R.'s corroborative value significantly decreases if the...