Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 27: In a habeas corpus petition relating to disappearance of a girl since 2014, High Court has directed the SSP Jammu to constitute Special Investigation Team (SIT) and get FIR under Sections 365, 366, 367 and 368 RPC registered at Gandhi Nagar Police Station.
After hearing Advocate Gagan Basotra appearing for the petitioner, Justice Janak Raj Kotwal observed, “undisputed scenario arising from the record on the file, in particular the status reports submitted by the SHO Police Station, Gandhi Nagar, and on hearing counsel on each side is that after the death of her husband in the year, 2000, the petitioner left the house of her in-laws. Her daughter, Renu alias Rukhsar Begum was given in marriage by her parents-in-law (grandparents of the missing girl) to one Irshad S/O Sheikh Mohamad of village, Beily Charana, Jammu on 08.08.2014”.
“On 08.09.2015 the husband of the girl lodged a missing report at Police Station, Gandhi Nagar informing that his wife had left their rental residential room situated at Rampura, Nai Basti in his absence on 13.08.2014 and has not been traced thereafter”, High Court observed.
On 27.10.2015, petitioner filed Habeas Corpus Petition before 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’.
“The police has not succeeded in tracing and recovering the missing girl 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”, High Court observed.
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 DB further observed, adding “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”.
Accordingly, High Court directed for registration of FIR and constitution of SIT.
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