BHU Missing Student Case: Allahabad HC Raps UP Police For Filing 'Vague Affidavit' [Read Order]
Live LawThe Allahabad High Court on Tuesday slammed the Police authorities for filing a 'vague affidavit' instead of giving a complete statement of facts that led to disappearance of a BHU student from Varanasi. The Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Govind Mathur and Justice Saumitra Dayal Singh has now directed the Senior Superintendent of Police, Varanasi to remain personally present in the Court on the next date of hearing, i.e. Last week, the High Court had taken cognizance of a letter petition addressed to the Chief Justice by Advocate Saurabh Tiwari, an alumnus of the Banaras Hindu University, in relation to the missing student Shiv Kumar Trivedi, who allegedly disappeared from the Police custody. It directed the Senior Superintendent of Police, Varanasi to file his personal affidavit about all the facts relating to missing of Shiv Kumar Trivedi and subsequent steps taken by the police.