Action against cops for booking teenager

A police officer has been suspended while another has been transferred after they booked an innocent school topper in a motorcycle theft case and put the teenager behind bars, officials said.

During investigation, police from Modi Nagar found that the suspect Ayush was a minor and a student of Class 11 at a public school here. He was the school topper in last year’s CBSE examination with 96 percent marks.

According to the police complaint, a man named Devendra Gupta said his motorcycle was stolen 25 October from his residence in Devendra Puri area of Modi Nagar. Police from Niwari later said they have arrested the thief and recovered the motorcycle. Residents told police that on that day, Ayush was following his father Sanjay Naresh’s scooter on the motorcycle of a man named Soni, a resident of the same area where they live. They were on their way to a scooter mechanic’s shop.

When Soni saw a police patrolling team, he fled, leaving behind a stunned Ayush. Police later came to know that the motorcycle was stolen by Soni a day earlier, but Ayush said he did not know anything about it.