Preparation of FIR with lawyer's help does not automatically affect its credibility: Allahabad HC

LUCKNOW: (Mar 1) The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has held that credibility of an FIR cannot be doubted merely because it is prepared with the assistance of a lawyer.

With this observation, the court upheld a person's conviction, though it reduced his sentence from life imprisonment to 14-year jail in an acid attack case in which two women had lost their lives.

A bench of Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan and Justice A K Chaudhary passed the verdict on February 27 on the plea of Jagdamba Harijan of Pratapgarh.