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A shocked, the Delhi High Court on Wednesday reproached the “insensitivity” of the authorities towards the homeless and directed a comprehensive inquiry into an incident where a woman was forced to deliver her child in an open park, after she was allegedly chased away by the policemen.
A Division Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna ordered the Delhi Police Commissioner B K Gupta to conduct a probe into the incident and fix the responsibility, if any, on the police officials.
“Sensibility and sensitivity have yet not been aroused and the homeless people are being cruelly and brutally treated despite several orders passed by us,” said Justice Misra, after going through the media reports.
“Has this happened yet again? We are shocked,” the Bench remarked as soon as they were informed that a woman was compelled to give birth in an open park near Pusa Road roundabout as she fell down after being chased away by some policemen.
The report claimed that the 24-year-old pregnant homeless woman was allegedly hit by a policeman on the leg with a stick. The trauma triggered the delivery and there was no time to take her to a hospital.
Infuriated over the alleged incident, Justice Misra brought up another similar case following which the Bench had ordered setting up of shelter homes for destitute pregnant women. In the earlier case, a woman had to deliver on a busy street.
Senior advocate Jayant Bhushan had forwarded the copy of media reports to the Bench. “The policemen treat the homeless with highest degree of indifference and don’t even consider them as human beings,” Bhushan said
Chased by cops, woman gives birth in park; HC orders probe
A Division Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Sanjiv Khanna ordered the Delhi Police Commissioner B K Gupta to conduct a probe into the incident and fix the responsibility, if any, on the police officials.
“Sensibility and sensitivity have yet not been aroused and the homeless people are being cruelly and brutally treated despite several orders passed by us,” said Justice Misra, after going through the media reports.
“Has this happened yet again? We are shocked,” the Bench remarked as soon as they were informed that a woman was compelled to give birth in an open park near Pusa Road roundabout as she fell down after being chased away by some policemen.
The report claimed that the 24-year-old pregnant homeless woman was allegedly hit by a policeman on the leg with a stick. The trauma triggered the delivery and there was no time to take her to a hospital.
Infuriated over the alleged incident, Justice Misra brought up another similar case following which the Bench had ordered setting up of shelter homes for destitute pregnant women. In the earlier case, a woman had to deliver on a busy street.
Senior advocate Jayant Bhushan had forwarded the copy of media reports to the Bench. “The policemen treat the homeless with highest degree of indifference and don’t even consider them as human beings,” Bhushan said
Chased by cops, woman gives birth in park; HC orders probe
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