New Delhi: The Delhi government on Monday
sought a fortnight`s time in the the Supreme Court to file a
status report on the police investigations into the alleged
dispossesion of an 87-year-old academician of her property
through deceit by a senior IPS officer.
Lotika Sarkar, a former Delhi University professor of
Law Faculty, had moved a petition accusing Nirmal Dhoundial,
an IG rank officer of Bihar cadre, of taking her property
L1/10 Hauz Khas Enclave through a gift deed secured through
deception in 2007.
Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam told a bench of
Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and B S Chauhan that the
government accorded utmost respect to the octogenerian lady
whom he described as an "extremely distinguished personality
and teacher."
He assured the court that the government would take
adequate steps to ensure that Lotikar Sarkar was not exposed
to any sort of vulnerability.
The apex court had earlier issued a notice to the
police seeking a status report into the investigation of the
case registered by Lotika at the Hauz Khaus police station
after it was alleged that the police were not taking any
action on her complaint.
Senior advocate K K Venugopal and Anupam Lal Das,
appearing for the retired professor, alleged the Delhi Police
were not taking adequate steps for probing the case as
Dhoundial, who is camping in the national capital, has been
putting roadblocks in the investigations.
Venugopal had earlier sought transfer of the case to
the CBI.
Bureau Report
