New Delhi, October 19: The Delhi government today sought a fortnight’s time in the the Supreme Court to file a status report on the police investigations into the alleged dispossesion of an 87-year-old academician of her property through deceit by a senior IPS officer.
Lotika Sarkar, a former Delhi University professor of Law Faculty, had moved a petition accusing Nirmal Dhoundial, an IG rank officer of Bihar cadre, of taking her property L1/10 Hauz Khas Enclave through a gift deed secured through deception in 2007.
Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniam told a bench of Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and B S Chauhan that the government accorded utmost respect to the octogenerian lady whom he described as an “extremely distinguished personality and teacher.”
He assured the court that the government would take adequate steps to ensure that Lotikar Sarkar was not exposed to any sort of vulnerability
–Agencies