The Delhi High Court has directed the city police to submit a status report within two weeks on a 17-year-old teenager who went missing from K.G. Marg in 2013.
A Bench of Justice Hima Kohli and Justice Vinod Goel formed a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the matter and issued notice to the Delhi government, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and others.
The court also directed UIDAI to provide all the relevant information available in respect of the missing teenager in a sealed cover before May 21.
“We are also of the opinion that in the peculiar facts of the present case where almost five-and-half years have elapsed from the date when the petitioners’ son went missing, an SIT comprising of competent officers in the field be constituted right away,” the court said.
“A status report shall be filed by the DCP [Crime Branch] within two weeks with a tabulated compilation setting out the steps taken over the past five-and-half years to track the petitioners’ missing son with a separate list of constructive steps proposed to be taken to track the missing person, without wasting any further time,” it added.
The High Court was hearing a plea filed by the boy’s parents who had filed a habeas corpus plea to track their son who went from missing on October 24, 2013.
The incident
According to the parents, the boy had left their flat at K.G Marg on October 24, 2013, at 10.30 a.m. and never returned. On the same day at 7.00 p.m., an FIR was registered at the Parliament Street police station in respect of the missing person.
“The investigation has been going on since past five-and-half years but to the utter dismay of parents, no clue about their son has come up. The lawyer for the petitioners says that the petitioners have been running from pillar to post all these years pleading with respondent authorities to trace their son, but to no avail,” the court noted.