Your case is covered within the provisions of Section 178 of the Criminal Procedure Code since it consists of several acts done in different local areas. In such a situation, the FIR can be lodged in any one of the areas where the offence has taken place, i.e., where any of these several acts has taken place. In particular, in your case, the FIR can be lodged either at Jaipur or Delhi or Lucknow.
It is advisable to file only one FIR at any of these places, instead of filing multiple FIRs at various locations as above. This single FIR can take care of all these acts.
Section 178 of the Cr.P.C. is reproduced below:
“178. Place of inquiry or trial.— (a) When it is uncertain in which of several local areas an offence was committed, or
(b) where an offence is committed partly in one local area and partly in another, or
(c) where an offence is a continuing one, and continues to be committed in more local areas than one, or
(d) where it consists of several acts done in different local areas,
it may be inquired into or tried by a Court having jurisdiction over any of such local areas.”
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