A city court rapped the Delhi police for conducting a “sham and bogus” probe into the kidnapping and murder of a wealthy school owner.
While acquitting the victim’s three friends — Chattar Singh, Manoj Kumar and Miraj Hussain Khan — of the charges of kidnapping and murder of Balbir Singh, the
chairman of a school in southwest Delhi, additional sessions judge (ASJ) Virendra Bhat, said, “It is apparent that the investigation in this case has been deliberately botched up in collusion with the victim’s wife and nephew to secure false implication of accused for the kidnapping and murder of Singh.”
The court also observed, “This is a classic case where the investigation has not only been faulty, sham and bogus but the investigating agency i.e., the Delhi police has danced to the tune of the relatives of the deceased. The investigation in this case has been namesake only.”
The police had arrested the trio saying they mixed sedatives in Singh’s drinks. When he fell unconscious, they put him in his car and drove to a secluded spot near Rohtak, Haryana, where they strangled him to death and dumped his body after disfiguring his face by battering it.
While acquitting the trio, the court said, “It seems the police was not functioning with that degree of honesty, integrity and uprightness with which they are morally and legally bound to act. It is writ large that the fairness and impartiality was lacking in the police officials investigating this case.”