Questions are being raised over the way south-east Delhi police is investigating NRI student Anmol Sarna’s case. The four friends who were with Anmol at South Park Apartment in Kalkaji on 13 September have only been booked under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act Act.
However, blood stains have been found at Praneel’s residence where the in-house party was going on in which LSD was being consumed.
Sources in Delhi police said, ‘If the blood stains have been found at the residence of Praneel where the deceased was also present, all the four friends should have been questioned and few sections of the Indian Penal Code including 302 (murder) could be imposed on them on the basis of suspicion.’
Secondly, Praneel’s father KD Shah who made the first PCR call was not interrogated even once by the investigating officer. The official said, ‘A statement under section 161 of the Criminal Procedure Code could have been taken.’ But cops failed to do so.
Another loophole in the investigation is that Ajit Sahi, a senior journalist who is a resident of the same apartment
and a witness in the case was not questioned even once.
The source added that it was the duty of a security guard to protect the apartment residents. Instead of booking the guards under section 302 (murder) they should be booked under 304 A (without any intention to cause death) of IPC.