The Gujarat High Court today ordered the police to file an FIR and submit a probe report in 15 days in response to a habeas corpus petition filed by the parents of a student who reportedly drowned in Narmada canal while on a college assignment.
Avi Raj (24), a student of Rai University, slipped and fell into the Narmada canal near the college in Dholka in Ahmedabad district while on an assignment to collect water samples on February 16. The other students who were with him reported the incident but his body has not been found.
His parents allege in the petition that police refused to register an FIR because the body has not been found.
The division bench of Justices K S Jhaveri and G S Shah ordered the police to register an FIR, conduct a probe and file a report within 15 days.
The petition also alleges that the college authorities kept them in the dark about the incident. While Avi stayed as in Ahmedabad as a paying guest, his parents live in another town.
