Two months after roping in former director general of police SS Virk in the search for Mohan and Mohini Nerurkar’s child, the Bombay high court on Friday said the police were overworked and did not have the logistical support to find the child.
The child was allegedly stolen from Sion Hospital. The investigations, now placed before a division bench of justice FI Rebello and justice KK Tated, will continue; but the court has said that the police need not file further investigation reports.
Public prosecutor Pandurang Pol on Friday submitted the 22nd investigation report enlisting measures taken by the police to trace the three-day-old child lost on January 1 this year.
“Let us be pragmatic. The police force is overworked. How many reports will they keep filing? There has to be some end to it,” Rebello said.
Nerurkar’s advocate Ashish Chavan, however, argued that it was not beyond the police’s might to find a child.
“What will they do in a city of 12 million people? There is something called logistics,” Rebello said. “They don’t have satellites to look for the child.”
Mohan Nerurkar said, “We still have hope of finding our child. But we have left everything to god. Only he can do something now.”
The court asked the counsels for the parents to show precedents in law where a government body had been held liable to pay damages for losses in their premises.
If there is such a precedent, the court said, and if the government or the corporation has been held responsible, it would have had ‘far-reaching effects’ as the government would have to pay compensation for losses in all premises owned by it.
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