A city court has summoned a Deputy Commissioner of Delhi Police before it to explain the failure to trace a girl child allegedly taken away by her father from his wife's custody. Metropolitan Magistrate Gaurav Rao issued summons against the DCP (West) for April 16 to explain the progress in the probe following an application filed by the harassed woman. The court had on March 19 directed Delhi Police to trace the three-and-a-half-year-old child and produce her before it, terming the act of the husband as 'illegal confinement'.
The order had come on an application filed by Avaneet Kaur through her counsel Deepak Kumar Sharma under Section 97 (search for persons wrongfully confined) of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Kaur, a resident of Nihal Vihar here, alleged her husband Ravinder Singh had taken away their daughter on March 6 without her knowledge and his whereabouts were not known. Station House Officer (SHO) Nihal Vihar police station, who appeared before the court on Tuesday, submitted the police issued a notice against Singh to join the investigation.
