The statutory framework contemplates that information relating to the commission of a cognizable offence is first placed before the officer-in-charge of the police station and an FIR is registered under Section 173(1) BNSS. If a person has a grievance that the police station is not registering his FIR under Section 154 CrPC (Section 173 of the BNSS), then,
(i) He/She can approach the Superintendent of Police under Section 154(3) CrPC [Section 173(4) BNSS] by an application in writing or other police officer referred to in Section 36 CrPC.
(ii) Even if that does not yield any satisfactory result in the sense that either the FIR is still not registered, or that even after registering it no proper investigation is held, it is open to the aggrieved person to file an application under Section 156(3) CrPC [Section 175(3)] before the learned Magistrate concerned. The Magistrate has very wide powers to direct registration of an FIR and to ensure a proper investigation and for this purpose he/she can monitor the investigation to ensure that the investigation is done properly (though he cannot investigate himself).
(iii) Moreover, he/she has a further remedy of filing a criminal complaint under Section 200 CrPC (Section 223 of the BNSS).
