HC directs police to fast-track investigation

SHIMLA : Himachal HC has directed the police to constitute an SIT to fast-track the probe in the three-year-old case of 24year-old missing Polish trekker.

Division bench comprising chief justice Surya Kant and justice Ajay Mohan Goel directed the crime investigation department to fast-track the investigation to locate the missing trekker.

“We expect the SIT to swing into action immediately and make some headway in the investigation,” the court said while directing the ASP to associate two more officers.

Bruno Muschalik had gone missing in Parvati valley in Kullu district in August 2015.

Bruno's father Piotr Muschalik had filed a petition in the HC last year. The petition came up for hearing in the court that directed Kullu superintendent of police to appear in the court on November 15.

Piotr had pleaded before the court that the police did not deal the matter with seriousness.

The Polish national, according to his Facebook status, was supposed to go trekking in Parvati valley on August 9, 2015.

After he went missing, his father launched a manhunt to trace his son. When the Kullu police failed to trace Bruno, the probe was handed over to the the crime investigation department. Police investigating agency was unable to trace missing polish trekker who was last seen in Barshaini village in Kullu. Tired of running from pillar to post, Bruno’s father, a professor of photography in University of Katowice in Poland, filed a peti tion in the court.

Piotr in his petition main tained that despite intimation from the Polish embassy, police dealt with this case “very casu ally” and did not even “register an FIR”. An FIR was registered only last year after the court’s intervention.

Piotr had pleaded that the case was not only related to his miss ing son, but also about others who had gone missing in the state. Records say at least 19 for eigners remain untraceable.HTC