Court tells cops to nab accused
A city court on Monday asked the Delhi police to depute senior personnel to help a woman officer in nabbing two juvenile accomplices of a school cab driver, accused of sexually exploiting a minor girl and her two brothers here. Metropolitan magistrate Ajay Garg asked the woman police officer, one of the investigating officers in the case, to take the help of senior personnel in tracing the absconding juveniles. Cab driver Lalit and four others are facing charges in the case that shocked the city.
The court made the observation as Lalit was produced before it after the end of his two-day custodial interrogation. The police told the court that only two out of the four co-accused have been arrested till now.
They also alleged that the school authorities were not cooperating in locating the co-accused. —PTI
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HC issues notices for contempt
AGE CORRESPONDENT
NEW DELHI
Sept. 20: The Delhi high court on Monday issued notices to Delhi chief secretary Rakesh Mehta and MCD commissioner Rakesh Mehra on a contempt petition filed by an NGO in a case for providing facilities to disabled students in schools. Social Jurist, an NGO, in its petition alleged that the Delhi government and the MCD failed to comply with an earlier court order directing them to appoint at least two teachers for disabled students and to provide necessary teaching aids and reading material in government and MCD schools within six months.
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