HC raps police for not filing postmortem report of NE youth

The Delhi High Court today rapped the city police for not filing the post mortem report of 19-year-old Arunachal Pradesh youth Nido Tania and asked AIIMS and CBI, which controls central forensic labs, to apprise it of the status along with reasons for the delay on Monday.
The court also asked the Delhi government to file a report giving details about the total number of post mortems being conducted by its hospitals every day and the time taken by them in giving the reports, noting that the capital had "primitive" infrastructure for examining evidence.
It also said that there should be a "central monitoring system" in place to keep track of hate crimes and asked the police to file details all such cases. "We fail provide security to one section of society. It is very shocking," a bench headed by Chief Justice N V Ramana said.

On being asked about the progress in the probe in the Tania case, Delhi police said, "We will not take more than 15 days in filing the charge sheet. We are waiting for the post mortem report which is not ready for want of viscera analysis and histo-pathological report."
Dealing with the host of issues related to law and order and investigation, the high court said, "Is AIIMS the only hospital which conducts postmortems. If you are unable to give post-mortem report in so many days in a sensational case like this then what about the status of other cases?

"We must say the infrastructure (to examine evidence in criminal cases) is at a primitive stage in national capital."
"There are other hospitals which conduct post mortems but AIIMS is the best and moreover, the post mortems there are video graphed," Dayan Krishnan, appearing for police, said.
On the issue of sensitization of common public so that sentiments of natives of North-eastern are not hurt, the bench said, "in fact police and Government need to be sensitized.