The Rajasthan Human Rights Commission has taken strong exception to the police sitting on complaints registered in the final days of a calendar year and filing FIRs en masse in January the next year.
Calling the practice — of not filing FIRs on complaints made in the last days of a calendar year — illegal, the SHRC has given the State police a two-month ultimatum to put an end to it.
The police often sit on complaints received during the last days of December in a year and file FIRs early in January. The practice serves to reduce the number of crimes registered in a calendar year, at least on paper, as the complaints get added to the records of the next year.
