File Nido post-mortem report by Friday: HC to police

The division bench asked Delhi Police to file a fresh report with post-mortem report

The Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the police to file by Friday a fresh status report - along with the findings of the autopsy - on the death of a student from Arunachal Pradesh.

A division bench of Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw refused to accept the status report filed by Delhi Police and asked it to file the report with post-mortem report and posted the matter for Friday.

"If in Delhi, the capital of the country, you are unable to give post-mortem report in 15 days, even in a fast-track case like this, what will happen to (other) cases. We can only say that your infrastructure is at a primitive stage," said the bench.

The court's remark came after Delhi Police counsel Dayan Krishnan told the bench that the report which was submitted to court does not contain the post-mortem report of Nido Tania, who was beaten up by shopkeepers at Lajpat Nagar market here. He died later.

"How many days usually post-mortem report take to come in Delhi," the chief justice asked, to which police replied that report takes 15 days to come.

The police, however, said in this case the post-mortem report will come in couple of days as it was sent to CFSL CBI so that report can come faster.

"Post-mortem report is still awaited, so I can't comment on the nature of injuries or how he (Nido) died. There is special investigation team constituted to deal with the case," Krishnan told the court.

The police also told the court that it has been taking steps to protect people from the northeast.

The court took suo moto cognisance, calling it a "serious issue" and sought a report from the central, Delhi governments and the police to apprise it of the steps taken in the issue.

Nido Tania, son of Arunachal Pradesh Congress legislator Nido Pavitra, was allegedly beaten up mercilessly by shopkeepers Jan 29 in South Delhi's Lajpat Nagar market following a quarrel over his appearance and clothing. He died in a hospital the next day.