
Granting him interim safety for 3 weeks, the Delhi Excessive Court docket on Friday directed the police to not arrest an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) who’s accused in a case pertaining to the homicide of a lady in London.
The courtroom additionally directed the police to file a standing report in three weeks.
Justice Neena Bansal Krishna granted the interim safety in an anticipatory bail plea moved by the accused ASI, who’s the uncle of a key accused within the case in reference to the dying of a 24-year-old lady whose physique was discovered within the boot of her husband’s automobile in London in November 2024.
The deceased lady’s household had filed a criticism on the Palam village police station accusing her husband, in-laws and different family members of cruelty and demanding dowry, following which a First Info Report (FIR) was lodged.
On April 1, a periods courtroom had refused to grant anticipatory bail to the accused policeman. In his plea, the ASI submitted that the FIR lodged on December 3, 2024, “doesn’t disclose any allegation of cruelty or harassment on the occasion of the Applicant ‘quickly earlier than the dying’.”
Additional, submitting that the girl had moved to the UK shortly after her wedding ceremony and that it was unlikely for the accused policeman to have subjected her to any cruelty, the plea submitted that “prima facie there isn’t a proximate and stay hyperlink between the alleged dowry dying of the deceased (daughter of the complainant) and cruelty or harassment meted out by the Applicant to the deceased and thus addition of 304B (dowry dying) to the FIR is prima facie false.”
Whereas granting the policeman interim aid, Justice Krishna, nonetheless, added that he ought to be part of the investigation as and when served with the discover to look earlier than the police.
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In the meantime, the counsels showing for the girl’s household informed The Indian Categorical, “We argued that there are particular allegations of dowry in opposition to the accused. He’s a Delhi Police official who we imagine has derailed your complete investigation. The primary accused continues to be absconding.”
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