The court also ordered an enquiry into the alleged lapses on part of the cops who handled the case, and directed strict action if a deliberate attempt to scuttle the probe was found
A city court came down heavily on the Delhi Police for "deliberate attempt" to portray the mysterious death of a 23-year-old man in 2017 as suicide during the probe.
Directing that an FIR be registered to investigate the "tragic death" of the man, who worked as a manager at a high-end hotel , it also observed that the case must be probed thoroughly to unearth the "blatant attempt" of the police to colour it as suicide.
The court also ordered an enquiry into the alleged lapses on part of the cops who handled the case, and directed strict action if a deliberate attempt to scuttle the probe was found. "The case requires thorough police investigation not only to determine the true facts behind the tragic death of deceased, but now also to uncover this blatant attempt to portray the death as a suicide from the very beginning," Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sumedh Kumar Sethi said.
The mother of the deceased, Arnav Duggal had filed a plea in the court, seeking an FIR into the death of her son. She had alleged that he was strangled to death by a "close female friend" at her Dwarka residence on June 13, but the police refused to take any action on her complaint.
Meanwhile, in the report submitted before the court, the investigating officer said that the probe pointed towards suicide, and there was no material to prove that the woman had killed him. Rejecting the contentions of the police, the court, however, said, "The court cannot help but notice that from the day of the incident itself the police seem to have presumed that this is a case of suicide. Despite the deceased being found dead in such mysterious circumstances and serious allegations being levelled by the parents of the deceased, the police had refused to register an FIR.
"It seems that a deliberate attempt is being made right from the beginning to take the probe in this matter in the direction of a suicide. The police seems to have blindly accepted the version of the woman."
THE COURT
- The court also observed that the polygraph test conducted on the accused woman too seemed to be done in a “rudimentary manner, seemingly a formality” by the police.
- The court has ordered an enquiry into the lapses on part of the cops.
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