HC orders CBI probe in child ‘kidnap’ caseii

Mumbai, July 09: The Bombay high court on Wednesday asked the CBI to take over the case of a child ‘allegedly’ kidnapped by his grandfather. Expressing dissatisfaction with the probe carried out by the police as well as the state CID, a division bench of Justice Ranjana Desai and Justice Rajesh Ketkar asked the CBI to file a status report in the case in a month.

The matter concerned the case filed by Bandra resident Manpreet Biji (28), whose one-year-old son was `allegedly’ taken away by her father-in-law, Tinkusingh Biji, in January 2008.

—Agencies