New Delhi, Sept. 23 -- Nearly five years after the suspicious death of a 23-year-old auto driver, Vivek Kumar, a Delhi court has ordered the registration of an FIR, pulling up the police for failing to act earlier.

The direction came on a plea filed by the victim's father, Rameshwar Dayal, who had approached the court after his repeated complaints to the New Ashok Nagar police yielded no results.

Advocate Amresh Anand represented Dayal.

Vivek Kumar was last seen on November 1, 2020, after being called by his auto-rickshaw owner, Anil. His body was later recovered from a Delhi Jal Board sewer treatment plant at Kondli, with the postmortem attributing the cause of death to asphyxia due to drowning.

Despite CCTV footage showing a scuffle...