IBN Live:Tuesday, December 27, 2011.
New Delhi, Dec 26 (PTI) 11 years after the death of a girl, her father's relentless quest of information under the RTI Act has led a court to issue summons to police to explain their failure in pursuing the matter and to the accused to answer charges of their criminal culpability. Metropolitan Magistrate Sumit Dass has summoned a bakery shop owner and his help to answer charges in case of a death of a 24-year-old girl allegedly by food-poisoning 11 years ago due to the stale sandwiches sold by them. While summoning the owner of Singh Sons Bakery in city cantonment area and his help Jyoti, the court also asked the police to explain irregularities in the probe, including a belated move by police to seek the court's approval to cancel the FIR in the case. The court summoned the bakery shop owner and his aide to answer the charges of causing death due to rash and negligent act of allegedly selling stale and noxious food item. "In so far as section 304 A (causing death by rash and negligent act) of IPC, I am of the opinion at this juncture that there appears reasonable ground to justify an inference that the death of victim was directly attributable to the consumption of the sandwich which was unfit for human consumption which led to series of multiple complication and ultimately caused the death within two days of consumption thereof," the court said. "In my opinion, Section 273 (selling noxious food) of the IPC is made out in the case in hand against the accused Singh Sons Bakery as the shopkeeper sold stale food articles which was noxious and not fit for human consumption," it added summoning the two accused on January 31, 2012.
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