Early Times Report
Jammu, July 27: In a petition regarding disappearance of petitioner's daughter, namely, Renu alias Rukhsar Begum since 2014, Justice Janak Raj Kotwal after hearing Adv Gagan Basotra appearing for the petitioner, directed SHO Police Station, Gandhi Nagar to immediately register FIR under sections 365, 366, 367 and 368 RPC in the first instance.
Justice Janak Raj Kotwal also directed Senior Superintendent of Police, Jammu to constitute a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by an appropriate police officer, not below the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police, to investigate the case and the head of the SIT shall take up the investigation with quick dispatch and file status report before this Court on the next date.
On 08.09.2015 the husband of the missing girl lodged a missing report at Police Station, Gandhi Nagar informing that his wife had left their rental residential room situate at Rampura, Nai Basti in his absence on 13.08.2014 and has not been traced thereafter. This report was registered in the Daily Diary of the Police Station as report No. 06 on 08.09.2015. On 27.10.2015, petitioner filed this Habeas Corpus Petition before this Court alleging inter alia that her daughter might have been murdered or sold to someone or might have become victim of trafficking to 'Arab Country'.
High Court further observed that fact of the matter is that the missing girl has not been traced or recovered till date. Some foul play in the matter is evident for the reasons that her disappearance from the rented room, where she was residing with her husband, was reported to the police by her husband on 08.09.2015, that is, more than a year after she went missing on 13.08.2014. On the other hand, no effort in the matter seems to have been made by the grandfather of the girl, with whom she had been residing after the death of her father and who had given her in marriage to Irshad. The matter, as it involves disappearance of a person in suspicious circumstances, requires thorough investigation, which may necessitate even the lawful and permissible custodial interrogation of the grandfather and the husband of the missing girl and directed for registration of FIR and constitute a SIT. |
