New Delhi, Dec 4 (Inditop.com) The Delhi High Court Friday asked the Uttar Pradesh police to wrap up within a week the probe into the death of a woman under mysterious circumstances after she married against her family’s wishes.
A division bench of Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Justice Ajit Bharihoke expressed dissatisfaction with the investigation into the death of Monika Dagar and sought the response of the state’s principal secretary by Dec 14, the next date of hearing.
The court was upset with the response of the principal secretary that the government needed more time to investigate the matter, and warned him if the investigation was not completed within a week’s time, the home secretary of the Uttar Pradesh government would have to appear before the court personally.
In its earlier report to the court, the Ghaziabad police said they had filed cases against nine members of the girl’s family on various charges.
At this, the court had asked why a case of murder was not filed against all of them.
“Prima facie, the case looks like as if it was an honour killing,” it observed.
Monika Dagar of Sahibabad married Gaurav Saini of Delhi against the wishes of her family in July this year. Her family then registered a case of kidnapping against Saini. In the complaint, Dagar’s brother alleged that his sister had been taken to an unknown place by Saini and his friends after abducting her.
The Uttar Pradesh police later recovered the girl from Saini’s house in the capital. After getting her medically examined and recording her statement before a magistrate, the police handed her over to her mother and brother despite the fact that she was an adult.
Saini, after getting bail in the case, moved a petition in the high court, which asked the Sahibabad police to present the woman before it.
But the very next day, it was reported that the woman had died and her body had been cremated the following day without any medical examination.
