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Prayagraj, August 30 (HS). Allahabad High Court has directed to decide within 15 days on the approval of prosecution of police officers guilty of negligence in investigation in the case of missing BHU student Shiv Kumar Trivedi from Lanka police station of Varanasi and has fixed the next hearing of the petition on September 19.
The court expressed surprise and said that the government which has to give permission to prosecute is itself writing a letter to the competent authority. In compliance with the earlier direction of the court, an affidavit was filed on behalf of the government stating that a letter has been written to the government for permission to prosecute.
This order has been given by the division bench of Chief Justice Arun Bhasali and Justice Vikas Budhwar on the public interest petition of advocate Saurabh Tiwari. The petition said that BHU student Shiv Kumar Trivedi was taken away by Lanka police station in February 2020. He disappeared from there under suspicious circumstances. The investigation was handed over to the CBI. During this time, the student's body was found in a pond.
It was said that an FIR was lodged against eight policemen of Lanka police station. But permission for prosecution is being delayed. It was told that the investigation was started six months after the incident. While the post-mortem of the student's body was done in BHU itself. The police failed to trace him.