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Court pulls up police in Mona murder case

NEW DELHI: The Delhi police were pulled up by a court here on Monday for shoddy investigation of the Mona Suri murder case.
The court, which had summoned an Assistant Commissioner of Police, directed him to personally supervise the case and return with a status report on December 22.
Metropolitan Magistrate Tarun Kumar Sehrawat asked ACP Ram Gopal Naik why the police had not recorded statements of the victim’s relatives when the force had all the resources at its disposal. The court told the ACP that it was a serious matter and that he should take care of it.
While seeking some more time for recording of statements, the ACP the court that the investigations would be speeded up.
Mona’s father Manjeet Bawa had alleged in a petition that the police were not investigating the case properly. It was alleged that despite a diary being recovered from the residence of the victim, in which she had hinted at her husband Naveen Suri ill-treating her and having an affair with his colleague, the police had not probed that angle properly.
Mona, a fashion designer, had suffered burn injuries when two unidentified young men on a motorcycle poured kerosene on her and set her afire outside her residence at Greater Kailash in South Delhi on August 12. She succumbed to her injuries on October 21 in Safdarjung Hospital.