Published on : 29 Oct 2025, 1:43 pm 4 min read

The Supreme Court on Tuesday clarified that a complaint from a court is not necessary for the police to register a first information report (FIR) to investigate a case involving the offence of threatening a witness to give false evidence under Section 195A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) [ State of Kerala v. Suni @Sunil ].

A Bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and Alok Aradhe clarified that since Section 195A of the IPC is a cognisable offence, the police can investigate such offences after an aggrieved person approaches it with a complaint.

A special procedure is laid down in Section 195(1)(b)(i) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), which has to be followed before a court can take cognisance of certain perjury-related offence

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