Notices to govt, police chief on girl’s death

The bench earlier this week directed the respondents to reply to the notices by the next date of hearing on August 10.

The petition filed by a voluntary organisation hum aap kesought the investigation conducted either by the crime branch of the Delhi police or the central bureau of investigation.

The girl, Madhubala alias Shehar Bano, a B.A. Honours (history) final year student of the Jamia Milia Islamia University in the Capital was found dead at her Trilokpuri residence on June 10 and the police is alleged to have registered a case of suicide in the matter.

Hum Aap Ke has through its counsel Mohammed Tahir Siddique and Islam Khan alleged that the police version of the sudden death of the innocent girl was `twisted and fabricated’ in order to `protect the culprits’ in the case.

The girl’s decision to convert to Islam, two years ago, had apparently agitated her father and two brothers and for this, she was being tortured time and again by them. Before her death, she had made several applications to police authorities seeking protection but none had bothered, the petition alleged.

The petition said that several complaints written to the SHO, Trilok Puri and the commissioner of police go on to show that the girl apprehended some danger to her life in the family. She had been beaten up by her family members on May 29 in the presence of a Delhi police constable, the petition added.

The petition further said that since she had adopted Islam, there was no question of her committing suicide as the faith prohibited any such step.