6,500 FIRs Filed Over Manipur Violence Cases, But That's Not The Whole Picture
NDTV
Manipur Police data shows the huge scale of destruction of property when the ethnic violence was at its worst
Over 6,500 police cases have been filed in ethnic violence-hit Manipur since clashes between the Kuki-Zo-Chin tribes and the Meiteis started on May 3, according to police data submitted to the Supreme Court on Monday.
A total of 6,523 first information reports (FIRs) - a majority of them 'zero FIRs' - have been filed in Manipur between the nearly three-month period from May 3 to July 30, according to the police report titled 'Disaggregation of 6,523 FIRs' that gives a break-up of the cases under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
A 'zero FIR' can be filed at any police station, not necessarily at a police station under whose jurisdiction the crime happened. Such an FIR has no number assigned, hence the name 'zero FIR', and the police station where the case has been filed has to send the FIR to the correct jurisdiction, which will then investigate it.