A court here today summoned a Joint Commissioner of Delhi Police to explain why the forensic reports were not yet filed before it in a case in which former MP Dhananjay Singh and his wife Jagriti Singh were made accused for allegedly killing their maid.
The court could not begin hearing arguments on framing of charges in the case due to the absence of forensic reports which were scheduled to be filed today by the police.
Additional Sessions Judge Lokesh Kumar Sharma pulled up the police for not taking seriously the murder case and asked the Joint Commissioner of Police to appear before him on the next date of hearing on September 24.
The station house officer of Chanakyapuri Police Station filed a status report in the court but said that FSL reports were still awaited.
This irked the court which summoned the senior official to explain the delay in receiving the reports.
Dhananjay, a former MP from Jaunpur Constituency in Uttar Pradesh, and Jagriti Singh, a dental surgeon at a government hospital here, were arrested in November last year in the case relating to murder of their maid.
The police, in its charge sheet, had alleged that Jagriti used to "mercilessly beat" her three domestic helps-- Rakhi Bhadra, 35, and two others-- and had "compelled" them to work by holding them captive.
Rakhi's body, with injury marks on her legs, chest and arms, was recovered from Dhananjay's South Avenue residence on the evening of November 4 last year.
Dhananjay was chargesheeted for various offences under the IPC, including alleged destruction of evidence and abetment of the offences of murder and attempt to murder.
Jagriti has been chargesheeted for offences under sections 302(murder), 307(attempt to murder), 344 (wrongfully confining for 10 or more days), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 201 (destruction of evidence) of the IPC.
Dhananjay is also facing trial for allegedly repeatedly raping a woman, railway employee between July 2005 and March 2009. Dhananjay was chargesheeted for the alleged offences of rape, voluntarily causing hurt and criminal intimidation under the IPC.
