The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the anti-trafficking unit of the city police to probe the case of a 15-year-old girl who has been missing since April this year and submit a report within
two weeks.
A bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and Vipin Sanghi passed the order while hearing a plea of the girl’s father seeking a direction to the police to trace his daughter. According to the police, the girl had gone missing in March 2014 also for a few days and then had returned home after a complaint of kidnapping was registered by her family.
However, she had refused to undergo medical examination, it said. Thereafter, during recording of her statement by a magistrate, she had claimed that she had married a youth and was not kidnapped by him as alleged by her parents.
Then in April 2014, she again went missing and has not been traced till date. Meanwhile, the youth with whom she had claimed to be married is also missing and raids at his known places of residence in West Bengal and Bihar elicited no clues regarding his or the girl’s whereabouts, the police told the court.
During the proceedings, the court observed that as per call records of the father of the accused, he has been receiving calls from the youth. It also asked Delhi Police why a polygraph test of the father of the accused was not carried out.
According to the girl’s family, her statement recorded by the magistrate earlier, that she had married the accused, was done without following proper procedure. The family has also accused the police of not following proper procedure to trace the girl. It has alleged that the raids were conducted as a mere formality and that too after informing the father of the accused.
two weeks.
A bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and Vipin Sanghi passed the order while hearing a plea of the girl’s father seeking a direction to the police to trace his daughter. According to the police, the girl had gone missing in March 2014 also for a few days and then had returned home after a complaint of kidnapping was registered by her family.
However, she had refused to undergo medical examination, it said. Thereafter, during recording of her statement by a magistrate, she had claimed that she had married a youth and was not kidnapped by him as alleged by her parents.
Then in April 2014, she again went missing and has not been traced till date. Meanwhile, the youth with whom she had claimed to be married is also missing and raids at his known places of residence in West Bengal and Bihar elicited no clues regarding his or the girl’s whereabouts, the police told the court.
During the proceedings, the court observed that as per call records of the father of the accused, he has been receiving calls from the youth. It also asked Delhi Police why a polygraph test of the father of the accused was not carried out.
According to the girl’s family, her statement recorded by the magistrate earlier, that she had married the accused, was done without following proper procedure. The family has also accused the police of not following proper procedure to trace the girl. It has alleged that the raids were conducted as a mere formality and that too after informing the father of the accused.