Patna: Annoyed over the police's failure for recovering and producing kidnapped schoolboy Gaurav Kumar alias Golu, the Patna High Court today (Oct 4, 2005) reprimanded the men in khaki observing that it seemed that the police was sleeping and criminals ruling the roost in Bihar.
Making a scathing remark on the state of affairs, a division bench comprising Justice R N Prasad and Justice S N Hussain observed that it seemed that the citizens of the state were living in a fear psychosis. "What kind of governance is there in the state?" they wondered before extending deadline for the police to recover and produce Golu by three days.
The bench ordered the police to free the DAV school student, who was kidnapped from here on September 20, positively by October seven and produce him in the court.
The court also directed the Zonal Inspector General of Police A S Nimran and Senior Superintendent of Police, Patna, Kundan Krishnan to submit an action taken report (ATR) on October Seven on the Golu abduction case.
The court had on September 30 given four additional days to the police to recover and produce Golu by today (Oct 4, 2005), but the police sought some more time for safe release of the boy.
Accepting the plea, the court extended the deadline till October seven before reminding the police that Golu should be recovered 'unharmed.'
The court had taken suo motu cognisance of newspaper reports on the alleged failure of the police to rescue Golu, Class IV student of local DAV school, who was kidnapped when he was returning home after alighting from his school bus on Gola road in Danapur on September 20.
