Bathinda, March 22 -- A district court has taken a strong note of the Bathinda police's failure in executing warrants regarding arrest of five cops accused of culpable homicide and disappearance of evidence in connection with a custodial death case.

Judicial magistrate first class (JMIC) Kuldeep Singh on Thursday termed the police action as a "sorry state of affairs" while observing that "non-bailable warrants against the serving police officials were received back unexecuted with the report that despite raids conducted at their houses, they could not be traced."

"It is made clear that arrest warrants must be executed at any cost, failing which the higher police officer concerned will be held responsible," the magistrate stated. The ord...