People don't understand the difference between private complaint and FIR which is a police complain taken at regular course. Our Indian constitution and legal system has helped the citizens and have provided a beautiful way of lodging complaint even if a person do not have the confidence of giving a complaint at his regular police station can also registered his complaint with help of Magistrate and get justice So what is the difference between the police complaint and a FIR is beautiful explain by lion adv. Arun Deshmukh your legal expert and friend who is a writer of 32 books