India, July 11 -- A city court pulled up Delhi Police for its alleged laxity in the investigation of a man's murder in 2007, observing that "dereliction of duty in a case involving loss of human life cannot be tolerated".

The observations were made by Judicial Magistrate First Class Bharti Beniwal of Tis Hazari Court on July 8 while dealing with a case wherein a man, in his early 30s, was found murdered under suspicious circumstances in a drain in central Delhi's Kamla Market, on July 30, 2007.

Police are yet to identify the accused in the 18-year-old case and file an untraced report before the court.

Highlighting the shoddy probe, the court first pointed out that the officers posted at the Kamla Nagar Police Station at the time did no...