Online registration of FIR was launched in December 2015 by Karachi Police Chief Ghulam Qadir. The initiative was taken after citizens complained that their FIR was not registered when they visited their local Police stations.
So in order to help the people of Karachi the Police Chief launched the online registration of complains. But it is being reported that Online FIR Registration is being misused for fun.
From the start of this year till now 2266 online complains were registered from which 389 were fake. Actions have been taken on 1862 cases, while 15 cases are pending.
The 389 fake complains were rejected because they were registered using fake Names, addresses and NIC numbers.
When police tried to contact the complainant through the contact numbers they realized that the numbers, names and NIC numbers are fake.
Police Department is saying that such acts are wasting useful resources of the department. Time and resources which would have been utilized somewhere else were wasted on these fake cases. From now on wards action will be taken against those who try to register fake reports, they said.