Mumbai: The Bombay High Court today pulled up city police for adopting contradictory stand in the case of 23-year-old Israeli national Nurit Toker, who was recently arrested at the international airport here with two live firearm cartridges. A bench headed by Justice A M Khanvilkar asked the police not to change their stand frequently with regard to investigations in this case. The police had earlier filed a report before a city magistrate seeking closure of the case on the ground that there was no evidence. The magistrate refused to accept the plea and had directed further investigations. Toker then moved the High Court to quash proceedings against her as she was carrying cartridges by mistake. However, the police took a contrary stand saying they would not resubmit their earlier plea of closing the case. This prompted the judges to remark, "Why are you changing your stand. If you have evidence then file a report or else say that you have no evidence and bring this on record". The bench asked prosecutor Aruna Pai to take up the matter with the concerned authorities and inform the court on January 17 about the stand taken by the police in this case. Toker was arrested at the Mumbai airport while she was in transit from Israel to Nepal. She pleaded that cartridges were kept in her bag by sheer mistake.
13/01/12 PTI/IBN Live
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