to submit a status report on the CB-CID or any other probe into the murder of a teenaged girl in a police station in Lakhimpur district.
The court has fixed 17th of this month as the next date of hearing. A vacation bench consisting justices S N Shukla and D K Arora passed this order after hearing a Public Interest Litigation seeking direction for a CBI probe into the case.
The petitioner has also sought a direction for paying compensation worth 25 lakh rupees to the victim’s family and for dismissal of the police personnel, whose name has come up in light in this case.
The court defered the hearing after advocate-general sought some time to take more stringent action against the guilty policemen.
The girl was found hanging from a tree inside the premises of Nighasan Police Station in Lakhimpur district on Friday. The victim’s mother in her complaint had alleged that the girl was raped and murdered after which district police chief and 11 policemen were placed under suspension.