Senior cop summoned by court

A Delhi court on Tuesday summoned a joint commissioner of the 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 accused of 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 on Tuesday 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, were arrested in November last year in the case relating to murder of their maid.