Delhi court slams Gujarat cops for 'hanging' minor boy as 'bait' to make father surrender
Additional Sessions Judge Parveen Singh said the officers' duty was to search for the father and not to take child into custody and transport him across states.
A Delhi court has dismissed a plea by four Gujarat Police officers who were accused of taking a minor boy to Gujarat while searching for his father, who was wanted in a case. The court ruled that the officers' actions were akin to those of colonial overlords, as they hanged the child as bait to make his father surrender. The Additional Sessions Judge, Parveen Singh, stated that the officers' duty was to find the father, not to take the minor child and transport him across states.
The court dismissed the criminal revision petition filed by the four officers, upholding the trial court's decision to take cognizance of the offense of kidnapping and frame charges against them.
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