CBI to find 2-yr-old missing since last year

...in our considered view, considering the deep concern shown by the parents of the child,we are of the view that to expedite the process to trace out the child, it would be in the interest of justice to transfer the case to the CBI.

On direction of the Madras high court, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken up the task to find a child who went missing more than a year ago while playing outside his home in Cheyyar town of Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvannamalai district.

The child’s family had claimed that no effective steps were taken by local police to trace the child, CBI has been given less then 50 days to file a status report.

The missing child, Aswak Ahamed, was two years and nine months old at the time of his alleged disappearance on February 27,2016. S Parveen Bee, mother of the child, had lodged a missing persons complaint with the local police station.

The family lives in a rented apartment on Kannugapuram street and the mother, who is the main complainant in the case, is a professor by profession.

In her complaint she told police Aswak was playing outside their rented apartment when he went missing at around 9.30 in the morning of February 27.

Local police had taken up the matter but were unsuccessful in tracing the child.

In response to the habeus corpus petition filed by child’s mother seeking CBI intervention, the public prosecutor had told the court that the state police had taken all steps to find the child.

The public prosecutor had further said police had traced out several phone numbers but whereabouts of the child were unknown.

During the course of the investigation, the superintendent of police had made a court appearance and assured the court that the child will be traced.

The additional deputy superintendent of police was tasked with finding Aswak but was unable to do so and on multiple occasions sought adjournment of court proceedings. A number of status reports have been already filed in the case, according to court documents obtained by Hindustan Times.

“In these circumstance obviously they (state police) are not hopeful of tracing out the child. In such a situation, in our considered view, considering the deep concern shown by the parents of the child,we are of the view that to expedite the process to trace out the child, it would be in the interest of justice to transfer the case to the CBI,” a panel of two judges had said. The probe agency last week filed and FIR and will now begun to trace the child.