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To which police station is the complaint given?Needed

For example: Division No. 5, Ludhiana

On what date is the complaint given?Needed

A calendar date — the day, the month and the year. Dates in a document like this are read against one another, so a date typed here can change what another date is allowed to be.

For example: 24 August 2026

How is the complaint given?Needed

I hand this complaint in writing at the police station and ask that it be recorded in my presence.I send this complaint electronically, and I will sign it within three days, as section 173(1)(ii) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 requires.

Who is making the complaint?Needed

For example: Manjit Kaur

Whose son, daughter or wife are you?Needed

For example: wife of Balbir Singh

What is your age?Needed

A plain number. Digits only — no words and no units beside them.

For example: 58

What is your address?Needed

House / flat / plot no.

Street, sector or locality

City area and PIN code

On which phone number can the police reach you?Needed

A number somebody can be reached on. Ten digits is the usual Indian form, and a country code in front of it is fine if you want it there.

For example: +91 98723 11418

At which email address can you be reached?You may leave this

An email address somebody actually reads. Notices under a document like this can be sent to it, so a working one matters more than a tidy one.

For example: manjit.kaur221@example.com

In a few words, what is the complaint about?Needed

For example: cheating by a dealer over a booked car

Which kind of wrong is it?Needed

cheating, where I was deceived into parting with money or propertycriminal intimidation or threatsharassment or abusemore than one of these, as described in paragraph 3

Who are the persons you complain against?Needed

Names, parentage and addresses where known, and a description of anyone you do not know.

A long answer. Several lines are fine, and a break you make between paragraphs is the break the document keeps.

For example: Ravinder Singh son of Gurnam Singh, proprietor of Sunrise Motors, Ferozepur Road, Ludhiana, and a salesman who gave his name as Pappu

On what date did it happen?Needed

A calendar date — the day, the month and the year. Dates in a document like this are read against one another, so a date typed here can change what another date is allowed to be.

For example: 12 June 2026

What happened?Needed

Tell it in order, in complete sentences, as it prints after the date: who said or did what, what you paid or gave, what was promised, and what the threats or words were.

A long answer. Several lines are fine, and a break you make between paragraphs is the break the document keeps.

For example: Ravinder Singh took Rs 2,50,000 from me as the booking amount for a car, promised delivery within 30 days and gave a receipt. No car was delivered, the showroom is now shut, and he has stopped answering my calls.

What loss or harm have you suffered?Needed

Money lost, property lost, injury, or the fear caused, in words that read after The loss or harm caused to me is.

A long answer. Several lines are fine, and a break you make between paragraphs is the break the document keeps.

For example: Rs 2,50,000 paid as booking amount and not returned

Who else saw or knows about it?You may leave this

Names, addresses and telephone numbers; leave it blank if nobody.

A long answer. Several lines are fine, and a break you make between paragraphs is the break the document keeps.

For example: my brother Harjit Singh, House No. 14, Model Town, Ludhiana, 98760 22110

What evidence do you hold?Needed

Receipts, messages, call records, bank statements, photographs, recordings.

A long answer. Several lines are fine, and a break you make between paragraphs is the break the document keeps.

For example: the booking receipt, my bank statement showing the transfer, and WhatsApp messages from 12 June to 30 July 2026

What steps have you taken so far?Needed

Earlier complaints, notices, helpline calls; if none, write that none has been taken.

A long answer. Several lines are fine, and a break you make between paragraphs is the break the document keeps.

For example: I sent a notice by registered post on 5 August 2026, which was not answered

Is any case about the same matter pending anywhere?You may leave this

For example: Consumer complaint No. 211 of 2026 before the District Consumer Commission, Ludhiana

What do you enclose with the complaint?You may leave this

For example: copies of the receipt, the bank statement and the messages

Who signs the complaint?Needed

For example: Manjit Kaur

Who will hold the completed record?Needed

For example: Kuldip Singh Sandhu

Which email address should receive privacy requests?Needed

An email address somebody actually reads. Notices under a document like this can be sent to it, so a working one matters more than a tidy one.

For example: kuldip.sandhu@example.com

Which consent statement should print?Needed

I consent to the collection and use described in the Personal Data NoticeI do not consent to the collection and use described in the Personal Data Notice

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COMPLAINT TO THE POLICE

To: The Officer in Charge, Police Station __________

Date: __________

From: __________, __________, aged __________, of __________, telephone __________

Subject: Complaint about __________: information of an offence, for recording as a first information report

Sir or Madam,

1. What this complaint is about. This complaint is about __________. I do not name the sections of law that apply: I ask the officer to apply the sections that the facts disclose.

2. The persons complained against. The persons I complain against are __________. I refer to them together as the accused.

3. What happened. On or about __________, __________

4. The loss or harm to me. The loss or harm caused to me is __________.

5. Witnesses and evidence. I hold the following evidence and will hand it to the investigating officer: __________.

6. Steps taken so far. __________.

7. My request. Please record this information as a first information report under section 173(1) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, give me a copy of it free of cost under section 173(2), investigate the offence, record the statements of the witnesses named above, and secure the records and articles listed in paragraph 5 before they are lost. If the facts disclose only an offence for which the police cannot register a first information report without an order, I ask that the information be entered in the station's register and that I be told in writing what further step is open to me. __________

8. If it is not recorded. If the information is not recorded, I will send its substance in writing by post to the Superintendent of Police under section 173(4) of that Sanhita, and if that too brings no action, I will apply to the Magistrate, who may order an investigation under section 175(3) after considering my application, supported by affidavit, and the submission of the officer in charge.

9. Other proceedings, and the truth of this account. What I have stated is true to my own knowledge, except where I say I was told it, and I have left out nothing I know about the matter.

LEGAL BASIS

Punjab: The information is received by the officer in charge of a police station under section 173(1) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, orally or electronically and wherever the offence happened; electronic information is signed within three days, and a copy goes to the informant free of cost under section 173(2). Against a refusal to record it, the route is a written complaint by post to the Superintendent of Police under section 173(4), and then an application supported by affidavit to the court of a Magistrate empowered under section 210, which may order investigation under section 175(3). The Sanhita has been in force since 1 July 2024. A police complaint decides no civil right: a claim for money or property is still for the civil court.

Chandigarh: The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 is central law and applies in the Union Territory in the same terms from 1 July 2024. The officer in charge of the police station receives and records the information under section 173(1) and gives a free copy under section 173(2). Against a refusal to record it, the route is a written complaint by post to the Superintendent of Police under section 173(4), and then an application supported by affidavit to the court of a Magistrate at Chandigarh empowered under section 210, which may order investigation under section 175(3). A police complaint decides no civil right, which remains for the civil court at Chandigarh.

PERSONAL DATA NOTICE

This notice is given under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.

The purpose of collecting the personal data in this document is to identify the complainant, the persons complained against and the witnesses, and to record the incident, so that the police can record the information and investigate it.

The record will be held by __________ and may be shared with the complainant, the police station and its investigating officer, the Superintendent of Police, the Magistrate and any court that tries the offence, and the complainant's advocate.

If the matter does not proceed, the personal data will be retained for 90 days and then erased. If the matter proceeds, the record will be retained for the transaction or authority matter plus 12 months, except where a statute requires a longer named retention period.

A person named in this document may request correction or erasure where the purpose has ended, withdraw consent for future consent-based processing, or raise a grievance by writing to __________. The record-holder should acknowledge and reply within 30 days.

Data minimisation: this document does not collect a full Aadhaar number, an Aadhaar-card copy, a password or bank credentials.

Personal-data instruction: __________.

SIGNATURE

______________________________
Signature
Complainant: __________
Place: ____________________
Date: ____________________

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