Delhi police had no search warrant: Beed activist’s father

Aurangabad:

Beed engineer

and activist Shantanu Muluk’s father, Shivlal, on Tuesday made a representation to Beed superintendent of police R Raja urging him to look into the issue of a two-member Delhi police team carrying out a search and seizure exercise at his residence early on February 12 without showing him any warrant/document.

Delhi police have said search warrants were issued against Muluk and another activist, Nikita Jacob.

Shivlal (54) stated that as a law-abiding citizen, he was bringing the matter to the notice of the Beed police as the Delhi police team seized a computer hard disk, a book, a

cell phone

cover and an

environmental

poster from Shantanu’s room, orally assuring him they would return the material at the time they would go back to Delhi. Since then, the Delhi police team has called him on two-three occasions at the Beed government guest house for questioning about Shantanu’s activities, he stated.

When contacted, Raja told TOI, “We have received the representation and will inquire into the matter. We have not received any official intimation from Delhi police about their operation in Beed nor we have any information about the seizure done by them. We also have no intimation about Shivlal being summoned for questioning at the guest house.”

Beed police authorities said under provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), an investigating agency or an investigating officer has the powers to search and seize articles and even make an arrest without alerting the local police.


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