Pulling up the UP Police for registering a case of kidnapping against a Delhi family and making arrests without informing the Delhi Police for the alleged abduction of a woman, the Delhi High Court has asked the SHO of UP’s Shamli police station. to be present before him on Thursday along with the case file.
“One fails to understand when [the woman] is an adult and has voluntarily left his ancestral home and gets married [the man]How does an offense under section 366 IPC and consequential offense under section 368 IPC constitute. It’s unfortunate that even without finding him [the woman] Whether he was a minor or a minor, and without finding out the correct facts from him, the arrest has been made in the FIR under consideration,” Justice Mukta Gupta said in an order.
The court passed the order in a petition filed by a couple, stating that they married of their own free will on July 1, 2021. However, the court was told that the woman’s parents were against the marriage and were repeatedly threatening her. The petition states that the man’s father and brother were taken away by the UP Police from their residence in Delhi on the intervening night of August 6 and 7 and their whereabouts could not be traced. .
Following the court’s notice, the Delhi Police submitted in a status report that they had questioned the UP Police and told that both the men in the case registered under IPC section 366 on September 6 on a complaint given by the woman’s mother was arrested. According to the status report, he was arrested on September 8 from Kudhana bus stand in Shamli district.
Delhi Police told the court that they were not informed about the arrival of the police from Shamli.
The court said that it is an “infallible law” that the man’s father and brother could not have been arrested by the UP Police and taken away from Delhi without informing the Delhi Police. The court has asked the SHOs of both Shamli and Jyoti Nagar police stations to be present before it on October 28.
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