<p>New Delhi: he Supreme Court on Friday slammed the Delhi Police for "sheer negligence" as a five-year-old child was “snatched” from its custody, and the investigating agency claimed that an airline cited its privacy policy for not divulging details of boarding passes.</p>.<p>“No airline on Earth can plead privacy in the matter of the commission of a crime,” said the court.</p>.<p>A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi rebuked the Delhi Police for letting a Russian woman flee the country with her child in violation of its orders in an ongoing custody dispute with the child's Indian father. </p>.Deportation of Russian woman’s 2 kids: Karnataka High Court grants time to Centre.<p>The bench examined the status report the Central government submitted and directed the authorities to coordinate with the Indian embassy in Russia, use Interpol, take appropriate steps, and bring on record the complete process they proposed for producing the woman and the child before the court.</p>.<p>It was told on July 21 that the woman might have already reached Russia, travelling through Nepal and the UAE. </p>.<p>The report said the Russian woman travelled by taxi from Delhi to a railway station in Bihar, reaching there on July 8. She then crossed into Nepal, boarded a flight to Sharjah on July 12, and then reached Russia.</p>.Russian woman found living in Gokarna cave: Former husband seeks shared custody of kids who stayed with her.<p>On Friday, the bench noted that the woman travelled from Delhi to Bihar via taxi due to the Delhi Police's sheer negligence.</p>.<p>It asked how the child was allowed to travel, since his passport was deposited in the court.</p>.<p>The bench also raised concerns over the possibility of forging or duplication of the child’s passport, saying that it appeared that the Delhi Police did not consider that aspect.</p>.<p>“It is a custody dispute, and out of two (mother and father), nobody has been given custody. The court is the custodian of the child. The child has been snatched from the custody of the Supreme Court of India; therefore, we are taking it very seriously. If somebody wants, we will pass a very harsh order,” the bench said.</p>.<p>The bench observed that the police failed to maintain surveillance and allowed the woman to leave her home with the child on July 7, and that the child’s father lodged a complaint, but the authorities did not act.</p>.<p>The bench noted that if police had acted then, it could have prevented the mother from boarding the flight to Nepal, and had the police taken preventive measures in the 4 days she was in Nepal, she could not have boarded the flight out of there. The court fixed the matter for further hearing after 10 days.</p>
<p>New Delhi: he Supreme Court on Friday slammed the Delhi Police for "sheer negligence" as a five-year-old child was “snatched” from its custody, and the investigating agency claimed that an airline cited its privacy policy for not divulging details of boarding passes.</p>.<p>“No airline on Earth can plead privacy in the matter of the commission of a crime,” said the court.</p>.<p>A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi rebuked the Delhi Police for letting a Russian woman flee the country with her child in violation of its orders in an ongoing custody dispute with the child's Indian father. </p>.Deportation of Russian woman’s 2 kids: Karnataka High Court grants time to Centre.<p>The bench examined the status report the Central government submitted and directed the authorities to coordinate with the Indian embassy in Russia, use Interpol, take appropriate steps, and bring on record the complete process they proposed for producing the woman and the child before the court.</p>.<p>It was told on July 21 that the woman might have already reached Russia, travelling through Nepal and the UAE. </p>.<p>The report said the Russian woman travelled by taxi from Delhi to a railway station in Bihar, reaching there on July 8. She then crossed into Nepal, boarded a flight to Sharjah on July 12, and then reached Russia.</p>.Russian woman found living in Gokarna cave: Former husband seeks shared custody of kids who stayed with her.<p>On Friday, the bench noted that the woman travelled from Delhi to Bihar via taxi due to the Delhi Police's sheer negligence.</p>.<p>It asked how the child was allowed to travel, since his passport was deposited in the court.</p>.<p>The bench also raised concerns over the possibility of forging or duplication of the child’s passport, saying that it appeared that the Delhi Police did not consider that aspect.</p>.<p>“It is a custody dispute, and out of two (mother and father), nobody has been given custody. The court is the custodian of the child. The child has been snatched from the custody of the Supreme Court of India; therefore, we are taking it very seriously. If somebody wants, we will pass a very harsh order,” the bench said.</p>.<p>The bench observed that the police failed to maintain surveillance and allowed the woman to leave her home with the child on July 7, and that the child’s father lodged a complaint, but the authorities did not act.</p>.<p>The bench noted that if police had acted then, it could have prevented the mother from boarding the flight to Nepal, and had the police taken preventive measures in the 4 days she was in Nepal, she could not have boarded the flight out of there. The court fixed the matter for further hearing after 10 days.</p>
