AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court transferred an investigation to CID (crime) after a missing girl could not be traced by Rajkot city police for over two years.
In this case, a 14-year-old girl went missing from her home in April 2019. Her parents lodged an FIR at Gandhigram police station in Rajkot, accusing a Muslim man and two Hindu women of abducting their daughter and detaining her forcibly. The cops registered an FIR against the accused under Sections 363 and 366 of the IPC, for luring away a minor away from her legal guardians’ custody.
When Rajkot police did not act, the father of the missing girl approached the high court through advocate Nirav Sanghavi and urged it to direct cops to find the girl. The DCP of Rajkot Zone II was directed to supervise the probe. The court took notice of the fact that the missing girl was not even 15 years old when she went missing and Rajkot police had filed an ‘A’ summary report.
Despite the HC’s intervention, Rajkot police could not find the girl. The court said that two and a half years to find a missing girl was a “huge amount of time” that had already been granted to the probe agency. The judges directed CID(crime) on Wednesday to take over the investigation with immediate effect, and directed it to try to bring the missing girl at the earliest.
