For the purposes of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, a First Information Report can be used for

An FIR is ordinarily not substantive evidence of its narrated occurrence. It can corroborate its maker’s testimony under Section 160 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 (formerly section 157 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872) and contradict that maker under Section 148, subject to the usual rules. It is not a prior statement of unrelated other witnesses, and a confession to a police officer, barred by Section 23, does not become admissible merely because it appears in an FIR. Exceptional uses, such as an otherwise qualifying dying declaration, must be distinguished from this ordinary rule. Information in cognizable cases is recorded under Section 173 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.