Section 4: First information report or information on commission of offence to be given

1) A person who knows that any offence set forth in Schedule-1 has been committed or is being committed or is likely to be committed shall, as soon as possible, make a first information report in writing or give information on such offence, verbally or through electronic means, along with whatever proof or evidence which is in his or her possession or which he or she has seen or known, to the nearby police office in the form referred to in Schedule-5.

2) If a person making a first information report or giving information referred to in sub-section (1) does not give such information in writing, the concerned police employee shall set down all matters of information given by the person in the form referred to in Schedule-5, read out the same to, and cause it to be signed by, that person.

3) If a person makes in person a first information report or gives information referred to in sub-section (1) to the concerned police office or sends such information through any person or electronic means, such police office shall register such report or information and give that person a receipt thereof, in the form referred to in Schedule-6. If any person gives information through electronic means, acknowledgement of receipt of such information shall be given through the same means.

4) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), (2) or (3), if the police receives any report or information about the commission of any offence set forth in Schedule-1 from any other source or on his or her own, the police shall prepare a report along with the details set forth in Schedule-5.

5) The police office shall enter the first information report, information referred to in this Section or the report referred to in sub section (4) in a register in the form referred to in Schedule-7.

6) Any first information report or information received pursuant to sub-section (1) shall be forwarded to the separate investigating authority, if any, specified by law in relation to such report or information, and, failing the specification of such separate investigating authority, to the concerned district police office.

7) A person wishing to give information about any offence set forth in Schedule-2 shall give such information, in the form referred to in Schedule-5, to the office or authority empowered to investigate into that offence.

8) The concerned office or authority shall register the information received pursuant to sub-section (7) and give a receipt thereof, in the form referred to in Schedule-6, to the person who gives such information.

9) If it is not possible to immediately register the information referred to in sub-section (7) in the concerned office or authority, such information may also be given to the nearby police office.

10) The concerned police office shall, if it receives any information pursuant to sub-section (9), register such information pursuant to sub-section (5) and forward it to the concerned office or authority not later than three days for action.