Hassan accident case is first FIR under BNS in Karnataka

BENGALURU: Karnataka's first FIR under the new Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which has replaced the colonial-era Indian Penal Code, was registered at 9.15am at Hassan Rural police station on Monday.
The FIR pertained to an accident in which homemaker Y Indu, 60, returning to her Halebid residence in Hassan district from Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru, succumbed to injuries sustained after her car fell off Seege Gate bridge on Hassan-Halebid road around 6.15am.Additional DGP (law and order) R Hitendra confirmed the Hassan Rural police FIR was the first such document filed under the new BNS.
A total of 80 FIRs, including 27 in Bengaluru, were registered across the state under BNS till 9.30pm Monday.
Plaints filed now about past incidents fall under old laws
Indu had gone on a pilgrimage to North India with her friends and landed at KIA on Sunday night. Her husband Yogesh had hired a driver, Sagar, to drive their car to KIA to bring his wife back. The accident occurred on her way back home. Sagar and Yogesh survived with injuries. The FIR names Sagar as accused and was registered under Sections 281 and 106 of BNS.
Section 281 pertains to rash driving or riding on a public way and prescribes imprisonment for up to six months, or with up to Rs 1,000 fine or with both. Section 106 pertains to causing death by negligence and prescribes imprisonment up to two years, and fine. If a person files a complaint on July 10 stating that his neighbour had attacked him on June 30, then the case will be registered under IPC, police officials said.
Karnataka has a total of 1,050 police stations (law & order and traffic) and, on average, registers 1.8 lakh cases a year, making it 493 cases a day.
Zero FIR and e-FIR
Beginning Monday, individuals can file complaints in any police station about incidents that happen anywhere in the country. For example, a man from Bengaluru visiting Delhi learns that his house has been burgled. Immediately, he can file a ‘zero FIR’ in the Delhi police station or file an e-FIR (online FIR). The individuals will have to present themselves before the jurisdictional police station within three days and sign the FIR.