By IANS,
New Delhi: A 13-year-old girl, who became a mother a month back, has approached the Delhi High Court demanding compensation from Delhi Police after it failed to trace her for over a year, during which she became pregnant.
Demanding a compensation of Rs.15 lakh, the minor girl’s counsel said before the division bench of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S. Muralidhar that “..it is because of the callous attitude of the police that the minor girl is now a mother of a baby, so the girl is entitled for compensation.”
Agreeing with counsel’s submission, the bench asked the police to file a detailed reply within four weeks and posted the hearing for Nov 25.
The court also heard the plea of the parents of the teenaged girl who went missing Oct 3 last year and was traced Sep 9 this year from Ludhiana along with the boy she had gone with.
The girl’s father, an assistant sub-inspector with the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), had lodged a missing person complaint with the police, who couldn’t trace her for months on end.
A probe team had visited the native place of the suspect, identified as Chhote Lal Yadav, at Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh and Ludhiana in Punjab but could not find the girl.