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Non-registration of FIR: Court seeks answer from police

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday asked the Police Commissioner of Delhi to file an affidavit explaining why the police had not registered a case on a complaint by a woman about alleged murder of her brother in August last year.

Justice Kailash Gambhir sought an affidavit from the Police Commissioner when the Joint Commissioners of the Crime Branch and the Northern Range of the Delhi Police failed to answer satisfactorily the queries of the Court about the complaint.

The Court directed the Police Commissioner to file the affidavit by December 12.

The Court has been hearing a petition by the woman, Radha, seeking a direction to the police to register a case on her complaint.

Radha approached the Court when a Metropolitan Magistrate court failed to issue any direction to the police on her complaint seeking a direction to the investigating agency to register a case.

According to the petition, the petitioner’s brother, Brijesh, was murdered on August 5 last year.

Radha stated that she had moved the High Court earlier as well when the local police failed to register a case. The High Court had at that time directed her to file a complaint in a lower court, the petition stated.

She thereafter moved the Metropolitan Magistrate’s court on August 22 last year. She stated that the lower court had been hearing her complaint for more than a year because the police had not been able to take a stand on it. She further stated that despite several notices to the city police by the court they had failed to file a reply to the complaint for as long as seven months. Thereafter the Station House Officer of the Rohini police station appeared before it and made an oral submission, the petitioner stated.

Later Assistant Commissioner of Police, Rohini, appeared in the court and informed it that the case had been transferred to the Crime Branch.

The petition alleged that the court had given undue liberty to the police in the matter.

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