India: Public Order

The Ministry for Home Affairs (MHA), Union of India, has recently announced a new initiative of the Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), which mandates converting any criminal complaint pertaining to a cyber offence, involving an amount more than INR 10,00,000 (initial limit), into a Zero First Information Report (FIR), immediately.

Non-payment of money or breach of contract are civil wrongs that differ from criminal offences, a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta reiterated.

As per Section 154 Cr.P.C./ 175 of BNSS it is provided that it is the duty of the Police Officer to lodge the FIR, if the information discloses the commission of a cognisable offence...