Registration of FIR impossible for poor: Delhi HC

A HC bench finds no FIR lodged by the police despite a woman’s complaint that her daughter has been missing from her in-laws’ house since June 2016.

It is “impossible for the poor”.

The Delhi high court bench seeks the response of senior police officers on the woman’s complaint. (AFP)

This is how an annoyed Delhi High Court bench termed the non-registration of an FIR in a case of a missing woman.

A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar expressed anguish when it found that no FIR was lodged by the police despite a woman’s complaint that her daughter has been missing from her in-laws’ house since June 2016.

The bench took note of the letter written to it by the woman explaining the ordeal suffered by her daughter before she went missing after she was harassed by her in-laws.

In her letter, the woman has also alleged that her daughter was beaten up for bringing less dowry.

Moved by the contents of the letter, the bench expressed unhappiness over the lack of action by Delhi Police and said “it discloses a hopeless state of affairs that even after a complaint was filed in this regard, the police has failed to lodge a case”.

It, thereafter, sought the response of senior police officers on the woman’s complaint.

The bench also asked the DCP of the area, where the woman had lodged a complaint, to place before it the action taken in this regard.

It directed the police to ensure that the missing woman and her husband are present before the court on the next date of hearing on January 29.