Court shifts child’s abduction probe to crime branch
By IANSThursday, May 13, 2010
NEW DELHI - A city court Thursday ordered the transfer of a probe into the alleged abduction of a minor girl by her father from west Delhi district police to the crime branch, a specialised investigation wing of Delhi Police.
The direction came after the court issued a notice to west district’s deputy commissioner of police (DCP) for his investigators’ failure to trace the child.
Metropolitan Magistrate Vandana Jain ordered that the investigation in the case should be handed over to the crime branch. She said the probe should not be conducted by an officer below the rank of assistant commissioner of police (ACP).
The station house officer (SHO) of Nihal Vihar police Station admitted in the court that they had failed to trace the three-and-half-year-old girl whose mother has accused her estranged husband of abducting the child.
The SHO told the court that they have registered a case of kidnapping against Ravinder Singh, the husband of Avneet Kaur who filed the complaint.
Kaur wedded Singh Oct 17, 2004. She has been living separately due to alleged harassment.
