Ranchi, March 30 -- The Jharkhand High Court on Monday took suo motu cognisance of the death of a 12-year-old girl in Hazaribag's Vishnugarh area, with police probing allegations of sexual assault and murder, even as the incident triggered a fresh political confrontation in the state.
A Division Bench of Justices Sujit Narayan Prasad and Anubha Rawat Choudhary registered the matter as a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) and sought responses from the state's Home Secretary, the Director General of Police and the Superintendent of Police, Hazaribag.
The court expressed concern over the pace of investigation and underlined the need for a prompt, fair and effective probe. It also stressed the importance of protecting the victim's family and ke...