Mumbai:

The Bombay Excessive Courtroom on Tuesday pulled up the Maharashtra police for its “superficial” probe in tracing a girl who went lacking after she went to Rajasthan three months in the past, leaving her child behind.

A division bench of Justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande directed the superintendent of police, Kolhapur, to coordinate together with his counterpart in Jalod, Rajasthan and make sure that the girl is traced and produced in court docket on June 20.

The bench remarked that it was “unbelievable that police equipment of two states, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, have been unable to hint a girl”.

The bench was listening to a habeas corpus (produce individual in court docket) petition filed by the girl’s husband from Kolhapur.

The person claimed that his spouse was detained by her father as he disapproved of their inter-caste marriage.

As per the plea, the couple tied the knot in February 2022 and had a child boy in November 2023.

In February this 12 months, the girl was knowledgeable by a member of the family that her father was unwell and wished to see her.

The girl went to Rajasthan to fulfill her father, leaving her toddler son along with her husband. Nonetheless, when she didn’t return, and when he couldn’t contact her, the person filed a police grievance after which a plea in court docket.

Final month, the excessive court docket had directed the Kolhapur police to go to Rajasthan to trace her whereabouts.

On Tuesday, the police’s advocate knowledgeable the court docket that the police visited the girl’s residence in Rajasthan however didn’t discover her.

The police recorded the assertion of the girl’s grandparents, who have been in the home, and the neighbours.

The bench, nevertheless, mentioned simply recording the grandparents’ statements was not sufficient.

“The police need to be advised the way to inquire? Grandfather mentioned she’s not there, so that you got here again?” the court docket mentioned.

The bench mentioned the police needs to be thoughtful of the toddler, who was with out his mom for 3 months.

“It’s troublesome to consider that the police of two states have been unable to search out the woman. It is unbelievable. Your (police) methodology is straightforward. You go and ask the grandparents. Is that this the best way? Since when the police have turn into well mannered?” the bench requested.

“After the court docket order, the telephones (of the girl and her mother and father) are switched off. You do not know the way to hint that? I assumed the Maharashtra police was the very best. Have mercy on the three-month-old little one with out a mom,” the court docket mentioned.

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