STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: A Division Bench of State High Court comprising Justice Hasnain Masoodi and Justice Janak Raj Kotwal issued notice to State and Others and directed Investigating Officer to file a detailed status report in the mysterious disappearance of a domestic help from a Judge’s house in Bathindi and come up with the case dairy on the next date of hearing.
The direction came in response to an application filed for constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate into the mysterious disappearance of a domestic help from a Judge’s house in Bathindi locality in the city periphery by Advocate Deepika Singh Rajwat.
In the application, petitioner seeking the constitution of a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the mysterious missing of 15 years old boy namely Rafiq Choudhary who is missing since 12th April 2015 from the residence of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rajouri who had employed him as domestic help in violation of Child Labour Act, 1986 three years before and seeking appropriate legal action be also initiated/ recommended against the erring Judicial Officer for employing minor Rafiq Ahmed as his domestic help.
In the application, petitioner submitted that on 10th April 2015, in the morning hours, the petitioner got a phone call from a reliable source about the mysterious missing of a child namely Rafiq Ahmed aged 15 years, resident of Village Ragura, Nagrota, Tehsil and District Jammu who was employed as domestic help by Chief Judicial Magistrate, Rajouri, Mehmood Choudhary, resident of Bathindi, Jammu in violation of Child Labour Act, 1986, three years before when he was only 12. The petitioner after locating the parents of the child rushed to their Village Ragura at the outskirts of Jammu near ASCOMS Sidhra, Jammu and the poor parents informed her that since 12th April 2015 their child is missing from the residence of the aforementioned Judicial Officer and the Police has miserably failed to locate the missing child and the parents further disclosed that their ward was working in the residence of the aforementioned Judicial Officer as a domestic help for the last three years and the said Judge had promised initially to send him to the School and later to employ him suitably by using his contacts. They further divulged that the said Judge and his wife have refused to share the details of their missing son and have closed their doors for them and have used unparliamentarily language against them and have further threatened to deal with them since he is a Judicial Officer. JNF