Jodhpur:
Rajasthan High Court on Friday directed that a case be registered against two police personnel, who took Rs two lakh from a man to fly to Karnataka to look for his missing daughter.
A division bench comprising justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Banwari Lal Sharma expressed grave disappointment over the conduct of the police and pulled up the two police officers present in the court after they admitted to the act.
The matter came to light during hearing today on a habeas corpus petition filed by Chail Singh, who approached the court after the cops returned empty handed from their trip.
Counsel of petitioner Mohd. Ali Rao said that Chail Singh's 15-year-old daughter had gone missing on the night of October nine last year. He registered a missing person complaint with the Jalore police on October 13 against a man identified as Surendra Singh.
After some days, the investigating officer ASI Inda Ram approached Chail and told him that the police had got a tip off that his daughter was in Hubli, Karnataka and said that they can reach there only by air.
Chail agreed to bear the expenses of the police for air travel to Hubli and handed over Rs two lakh to the police by mortgaging the jewellery of his wife, the counsel said.
After receiving the money from the complainant, the Investigating Officer boarded the flight with a constable and the sarpanch of village.
But police returned empty handed from Hubli after a few days and told Chail that his daughter could not be found in Hubli.
It also came to light that police did not mention the visit in the case diary, which had been called by the court on Friday.
Expressing surprise over the manner in which the police had acted, the court directed the Superintendent of Police (Jalore) to appear before it with case records on February 11 and register case against the erring policemen.
A division bench comprising justices Dinesh Maheshwari and Banwari Lal Sharma expressed grave disappointment over the conduct of the police and pulled up the two police officers present in the court after they admitted to the act.
The matter came to light during hearing today on a habeas corpus petition filed by Chail Singh, who approached the court after the cops returned empty handed from their trip.
Counsel of petitioner Mohd. Ali Rao said that Chail Singh's 15-year-old daughter had gone missing on the night of October nine last year. He registered a missing person complaint with the Jalore police on October 13 against a man identified as Surendra Singh.
After some days, the investigating officer ASI Inda Ram approached Chail and told him that the police had got a tip off that his daughter was in Hubli, Karnataka and said that they can reach there only by air.
Chail agreed to bear the expenses of the police for air travel to Hubli and handed over Rs two lakh to the police by mortgaging the jewellery of his wife, the counsel said.
After receiving the money from the complainant, the Investigating Officer boarded the flight with a constable and the sarpanch of village.
But police returned empty handed from Hubli after a few days and told Chail that his daughter could not be found in Hubli.
It also came to light that police did not mention the visit in the case diary, which had been called by the court on Friday.
Expressing surprise over the manner in which the police had acted, the court directed the Superintendent of Police (Jalore) to appear before it with case records on February 11 and register case against the erring policemen.
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