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between the FIR and the court judgement and at both ends of the process, risks are building. At the first instance,
relying on FIRs for data on sexual assault or a framework for sexual assault in India may be unreliable. Moreover,
media articles relating to a number of the cases looked at by The Hindu indicated that the media reports the FIR
nearly verbatim without contacting the accused, and rarely follows up except in high-profile cases.