Actress Chitrangada Singh signs on a slogan board during a “Soldier for Women” promotional campaign in Hyderabad, yesterday. The campaign was organised to encourage Indian men to treat women with dignity and respect, following a spate of of sex attacks that have made global headlines.
New Delhi: The Supreme Court yesterday directed Delhi Police to file an affidavit giving details of steps taken after they received a complaint from the parents of a five-year-old girl who was gang-raped after being abducted in the capital.
The apex court bench of Chief Justice Altamas Kabir, Justice Vikramajit Sen and Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde directed police to file the affidavit on the petition of NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan.
The court sought the details of steps taken by police after the girl’s parents gave a complaint after she went missing from Gandhi Nagar in east Delhi on April 15.
The judges’ direction came after they declined to accept a police explanation that was submitted in court on a plain paper.
The petitioner had sought initiation of contempt of court proceedings against the police commissioner, the area deputy commissioner of police, the area police station chief and the investigating officer of the case.
The NGO said police disregarded the January 17 order of the apex court which said that in “case a complaint with regard to any missing children is made in a police station, the same should be reduced into a first information report and appropriate steps should be taken to see that followup investigation is taken up immediately thereafter”.
As the court took up the plea for hearing, Additional Solicitor General Siddarth Luthra told the court that another bench of the court was seized of a similar matter. But senior counsel H S Poolka, who appeared for the NGO, told the court that the matter being dealt with by the bench headed by Justice G S Singhvi was different from the one raised by the petitioner. IANS
