Authority who can cancel the FIR

791 votes

FIR is not to be cancelled, no one can cancel the FIR it is to be quashed and it is being quashed by being approaching to High Court for quashment by filing a petition for quashment, or police can not admit the FIR

Advocate Sameer Dar LawRato

665 votes

it can be quashed by high court by filing petition before it and after seeing the fir if prima facie no case is made out then high court will quash the proceeding and automatically the FIR goes and trial ends

Advocate Mohit Jain LawRato

702 votes

FIR can be canceled by the Police/Investigating officer at the first instance after finding during the investigations that there is lack of evidence or case is not proved, and then file a closure report. Besides the IO the FIR can be canceled commonly called quashed by the High Court or the Supreme Court under their constitutional or inherent powers of the CrPC.

Advocate Aseem Sawhney LawRato