NEW DELHI: SC has barred trial courts from at once entertaining lawsuits and ordering police to analyze them by way of ruling that previous to shifting courtroom for probing a cognisable offence, an individual should method jurisdictional police for registration of FIR.A bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and S V N Bhatti mentioned, “A Justice of the Peace ought no longer ordinarily entertain an software below Segment 156(3) of the Code of Felony Process (CrPC) at once except the informant has availed and exhausted his treatments equipped below Segment 154 (3) of the code.”Writing the judgment in a cross-case, Justice Mithal mentioned magistrates should ask the informant to first method the officer-in-charge of the police station after which the superintendent of police. “It’s neatly known in legislation that the individual aggrieved should first exhaust the other treatments to be had to him in legislation prior to drawing near the courtroom of legislation. In different phrases, he can’t ordinarily method the courtroom at once,” he mentioned.The bench did a conjoint studying of sections 154, 156 and 190 of the CrPC and mentioned, “It’s crystal transparent that an informant who desires to record a couple of fee of a cognisable offence has to, within the first example, method the officer-in-charge of the police station for surroundings the prison legislation into movement by way of accommodation an FIR.”“Alternatively, if such data isn’t authorised by way of the officer-in-charge of the police station and he refuses to document it, the treatment of the informant is to method the SP involved. It is just next to availing the above alternatives that if he isn’t a success, he might method the Justice of the Peace below phase 156(3) of the CrPC for essential motion or of taking cognisance in line with phase 190 of the CrPC,” the bench mentioned.SC mentioned if the details about a cognisable offence isn’t being recorded by way of the officer-in-charge of the police station and even by way of the SP, then the individual aggrieved or the informant “might transfer the courtroom the Justice of the Peace involved to get the FIR registered and lodged with the involved police station.”