New Delhi [India], September 23 (ANI): Nearly 5 years after the suspicious dying of a 23-year-old auto driver, Vivek Kumar, a Delhi court docket has ordered the registration of an FIR, pulling up the police for failing to behave earlier.
The path got here on a plea filed by the sufferer’s father, Rameshwar Dayal, who had approached the court docket after his repeated complaints to the New Ashok Nagar police yielded no outcomes.
Advocate Amresh Anand represented Dayal.
Vivek Kumar was final seen on November 1, 2020, after being referred to as by his auto-rickshaw proprietor, Anil. His physique was later recovered from a Delhi Jal Board sewer remedy plant at Kondli, with the postmortem attributing the reason for dying to asphyxia resulting from drowning.
Despite CCTV footage displaying a scuffle involving the deceased, the police didn’t register a case, sustaining there was ‘no foul play.’
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Mayank Goel, whereas referring to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Lalita Kumari v. Govt. of U.P. (2014), held that the details clearly disclosed a cognizable offence of homicide.
The court docket noticed that the investigating officers filed stories with a ‘predetermined notion’ and ignored the complainant’s proof.
In his order, the decide not solely directed the SHO involved to register an FIR at once but additionally instructed the Deputy Commissioner of Police (East) to sensitise all ACPs and SHOs to make sure immediate FIR registration in circumstances involving human loss.
With this order, an FIR will lastly be lodged within the case–almost 5 years after Vivek Kumar’s dying.
The matter has been listed for additional proceedings on September 25, 2025. (ANI)