New Delhi: Efforts by Delhi University students to get a judicial inquiry conducted into the DU molestation case fell through on Monday when the Delhi High Court dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by a college student seeking a judicial panel to probe the student molestation case.
The petitioner had pleaded for a judicial inquiry into the case on the ground that neither the complainants nor the victims were coming forward to identify the accused.
The Delhi Police, however, told a division bench headed by Justice TS Thakur that the victims and complainants in the case were not coming forward to identify the culprits.
Appearing for the police, standing counsel Mukta Gupta told the court that the police cannot take any action against the accused as the “complainants were not cooperating with the investigation.”
Police had registered three FIRs in three separate incidents of molestation in Delhi University area between September 15 to 19.
The bench, however, directed the petitioner to approach the metropolitan magistrate concerned, saying: “We see no reason to intervene into the matter at this stage as the investigation is in progress and jurisdictional courts (metropolitan magistrate) have the power to monitor the investigation.”
In the status report filed before the bench of Chief Justice MK Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Khanna on September 21, the police said the FIRs pertaining to three separate incidents were registered at Mukherjee Nagar, Civil Lines and Maurice Nagar police stations.
“The police have the photographs of the candidates who came to appear for the written tests. However, neither the victims nor the complainants came forward to identify the accused,” Gupta
said with regard to DU Metro Station incident where the complainant ‘failed’ to cooperate with the police.
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