3.2 The FIR (Jaheri Darkhasta) — the Investigation's Key

The purpose: the earliest information — the investigation's trigger and the later trial's first reference point (the FIR's consistency a credibility question for the informant at trial). The anatomy (drafting template): The addressee — the police station (the area's) or the district court; The informant's identification — the name, age, address, occupation (the anonymous's weight problem); The offence's facts — numbered, chronological, concrete (the date, the time, the place; the act's description; the actors' identification or description); The witnesses and the evidence's indication — who saw; what traces exist (the stolen goods, the injuries, the documents); The loss's statement — the value where relevant; The request for investigation and action — the prayer; The informant's signature and date. Craft rules: the earliest version's honesty (the later-addition suspicion); the facts without the legal conclusions (the FIR narrates, the lawyer characterises); the false FIR's own criminality (the false-reporting offence — the informant's exposure).