MUMBAI, Sept. 5 -- The Bombay High Court on Wednesday called out the city police for their 'grossly callous' way of handling a hit-and-run case that claimed the life of a 20-year-old man in 2022, observing that they had taken three years to identify the accused. In August this year, the police arrested the truck driver and filed a chargesheet. A division bench of Justices Ravindra Ghuge and Gautam Ankhad noted that the investigation gathered pace only after the court's intervention and observed that effective steps were taken only after the court cautioned them of possible repercussions. Terming the investigation 'seriously depreciable,' the bench said the police had fallen short of citizens' expectations. The incident dates back to August 2022, when a speeding truck rammed into the man's two-wheeler in Malad, causing his death. Babita Pawan Jha, the victim's mother, filed a petition with the high court, expressing her dissatisfaction with the police's investigation, after they issued a summary report in August 2023, stating that they could not identify the accused....