Activists from the Blind Workers Union (BWU) gheraoed the Delhi Police headquarters on Saturday to protest against what they called negligence, apathy and indifferent attitude shown by the cops in taking action to find the kidnapped four-year-old boy of a blind couple.
BWU said that the couple had gone to the New Delhi Railway station on September 15 to drop off a relative. There a woman began following them — something which is evident from the station’s CCTV footage, which also shows the woman pick up the couple’s child and take him away.
‘Indifferent attitude
of police in case’
“The parents immediately approached the New Delhi police station where an FIR was lodged. However, given their poor economic status, the local police have taken a very laid back attitude in the case. No proactive measures were taken to trace the child despite the CCTV footage. The parents are not being informed of the current status of the investigation. The couple is extremely poor. This is a clear example of the indifferent attitude the Delhi Police shows when handling cases of poor people and persons from unprivileged background,” said BWU president Ramnath Singh.
The group said that the couple had approached the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) to intervene in the case, but no action has been taken so far.
BWU activists also submitted a memorandum to the Delhi Police Commissioner demanding a probe into the police-trafficker nexus.They also demand that the tainted police personnel should be immediately suspended and cases under relevant sections should be registered against them.
