HC seeks status report on elderly couple's plea against police

The Delhi High Court today sought a status report from the city police on an elderly couple's plea seeking protection against alleged harassment by local cops who are looking for their son in a criminal case.
Issuing notice to the police, Justice Siddharth Mridul sought a status report by May 28 on a plea filed by Kishan Lal, 74, and his wife, 65, who also alleged that the police have been extending threats to their other sons too.
In their petition, the couple said that out their four sons, one is lodged in jail for last more than two years in a "false" case of theft registered by the police.

Claiming that they have no knowledge about the whereabouts of their another son who has been absconding for the last one year, they alleged that the police personnel visited their house at any time during the day or at night in search of him.
"Cops have forcibly entered into the premises of the petitioner and used filthy and unparliamentary language against the couple," the petition said.
It contended that the local police also harassed their two other sons who work as drivers and, recently, one of them was picked up by the police and assaulted.
The police had even threatened to implicate them in various cases, it submitted, pleading that the Station House Officer of Palam Vihar should not their two sons.

A written complaint was made in this regard on February 23, this year but no action has been taken as yet, it added.