Patna,(BiharTimes): A bench of Justice R M Lodha and Justice Shiva Kirti Singh of the Supreme Court on Monday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to expeditiously probe into the mysterious disappearance of 12-year-old girl Navruna Chakravarty from her home in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar on the night of September 18 last year.

Disposing of a PIL in this regard the Court directed the  CBI to conduct a speedy investigation in a “time-bound” manner in the case after it was told that Bihar government had already issued a notification recommending the probe by this premier agency.

The state government recommendation came a couple of months back when the mother and sister of the girl met the chief minister Nitish Kumar in his Janata Darbar with this plea. The parents were not satisfied with the CID probe.
The girl was a class VII student of St. Xavier Public School in Muzaffarpur and had gone missing from her house located in Ghirnipokhar locality under Town police station area on September 18 last year.

The PIL has been filed by Abhishek Ranjan Kumar, a law student and others. His counsel, Prachi Mishra, , has also filed some additional documents to support the plea that there was serious lacunae in the investigation carried out so far by the state police and the CID.

According to the PIL the investigation has been poor and police officials are contradicting themselves. While on one hand they are asking for DNA sample on the other hand the IO Amit Kumar has repeatedly assured, even after the recovery of a skeleton, that the victim is alive and she would be brought back by police.

The petitioners alleged they fear for their lives for raising the case of the girl.