Jammu: Spreading awareness among the general public on e-FIR registration, the facility is turning out to be a boon for the citizens of Jammu and Kashmir.
The police spokesman here said that under the new criminal laws of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), the citizens have been provided with the facility of lodging their complaints in any of the electronic forms, like SMS, email, WhatsApp, Citizen Service Centres, and Web Portal/Internet (Eforms), in addition to verbal, telephonic, or written complaints.
As of date, he said that 52 complaints have been received through SMS and Email in different police stations of UT, adding, “In addition, 64 complaints have been received on Citizen Service Centres and 10 complaints from Web Portal/ Internet (Eforms) and more than 70 such complaints have been converted into FIRs.”
“As per section 173 BNSS, any complaint (electronic) received by police shall be entered in the records; however, the complainant has to sign that complaint (electronic) within three days,” he added.
He further said that with regard to Zero FIR, so far more than 100 such FIRs have been registered in different police stations of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, and out of these, 83 FIRs were transferred to different police stations.
As the general public is well aware of the cybercrime trends, checks and balances have been introduced at various levels so that the facility of eFIR, etc., provision cannot be misused by any miscreant, he added.
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