Chitthi
Chitthi चिट्ठी

Say it in your own words.

Speak what happened. This turns it into the exact form the police station uses, and seals it with today's date and time — so no one can say later that you made it up afterwards.

Your account stays on this phone

Your words, your photographs and this whole document stay on your own phone. No account, no password, and nothing is sent anywhere until you send it yourself. One thing you should know: when you speak instead of writing, the phone uses its own speech service to turn your voice into words, and for those moments your voice goes to that service. If you would rather nothing left the phone at all, write instead.

If you are hurt right now

Go to any hospital first. Treatment for injuries is free and you do not need a police report to be treated. Call 112 for emergency help, or 181 for the women's helpline. This app can wait.

Chitthi is now an app

The same Chitthi, on your own phone — free on the App Store and on Google Play. Once it is installed it opens from your home screen and keeps working without the internet.

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This is not a police website. It does not file anything for you and it is not legal advice. It prepares your own statement, in your own words, for you to take or send yourself.

Step 1 of 5 — Your account

Tell it in your own way

Start from the beginning. Say what happened, when, and who. If you stop or cry or repeat yourself, that is fine — it is kept exactly as you say it.

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Listening

To turn your voice into words, this phone uses its own speech service — while you are speaking, your voice goes to that service. Nothing else leaves this phone. You can write below instead.

A recording you already made

If you already recorded this on your phone — a voice note, or something you sent someone — add it here. It gets its own code the moment you add it, and it is listed with your document. Then say or write below, in a few lines, what is in it.

Sealing means the exact words above, and the time right now, are locked together. Anything you add later is kept separately, so your first account always stands as you first gave it.

Sealed

Your account is safe now.

Sealed

This code is calculated from your exact words. If a single letter changes, the code changes. That is how it can be shown later that this is what you said today.

Even if you stop here and never open this again, you have a dated record. The next part fills in the form the police station needs.

Step 2 of 5

If you do not know something, tick “I don't know”. An honest blank is better than a guess — and it will not be held against you.

Step 4 of 5 — Photographs and papers

Anything that shows what happened

Photographs of injuries, hospital papers, messages, screenshots. Each one gets a code the moment you add it, which shows it has not been changed since.

Step 5 of 5 — Your document

This is what you give them

It follows the same column order as the police station's own First Information Report form, so the officer can copy it straight across. The document itself is in English, because that is what the station and the court work from.

Send it

Who should have a copy?

Send it to the police station, and to at least one person you trust. A copy in someone else's hands is harder to lose and harder to deny.

Before you send

Whatever you use leaves a trace on this phone — a sent message, an email in your outbox. If someone else can open your phone, think about who you send it to and clear it afterwards.

Send now

People you choose
What you have sent

This list is added to the bottom of your document, so it shows who was told and when.

For you, and for your lawyer

What the law may call this

Tick whatever is true. Chitthi will then show you which parts of the law usually cover it, what each one carries, and what protection you already have. None of this is added to the document you give the police — which section applies is theirs and the court's to decide, not this app's.

This is not legal advice. Chitthi is not a lawyer and cannot tell you what will be charged, or whether anything will be. This page exists so that you know roughly where you stand, and so that a lawyer does not have to start from nothing. A free lawyer will tell you what is really so — dial 15100.

Keep this for yourself

At the police station

Do not hand this page to the officer. It is for you. Read it before you go in.

    If you were turned away

    This is not the end of it

    Being refused at the counter is not the end of the road. The law gives you two further steps, and both are free. Answer only what you can — every part of this can be left blank.

    While you speak, your voice goes to this phone’s own speech service. Nothing else leaves this phone.

    Your next-step letters

    Two letters, ready

    Take or send the first one. If that gets no result, the second one goes to the Magistrate. Both are free and neither needs a lawyer to submit — though a lawyer will help. The letters themselves are in English, because that is what the office and the court read.