Overview
- Kolkata Police Commissioner Ajay Nand issued the order on Sunday to require five mandatory steps for Zero FIR transfers after officials found repeated delays in moving cases to the correct jurisdiction.
- The SOPs require the officer who registers a Zero FIR to personally call the receiving station, transfer full case facts and the complainant’s contact details, and remain responsible until the jurisdictional unit adopts the case.
- Victims and families must be briefed on follow-up actions and given the receiving officer’s contact number, and all transfers in offences against women must be reported immediately to the divisional deputy commissioner of police.
- The order follows public outrage over the rape and murder of a minor in Baruipur and operational changes in that probe, including the appointment of DSP Santanu Mukhopadhyay as the new investigating officer, four arrests, and one suspect killed in a custody encounter.
- Zero FIRs let any station record a complaint outside its area and then forward it through the court to the correct station, and officials say these SOPs are meant to stop time‑critical gaps that have hindered early evidence gathering and public trust.