‘Colonial overlords’: Delhi court slams Gujarat cops for 'using' child to nab dad

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has dismissed a plea filed by four Gujarat Police officers accused of taking a minor boy from Delhi to Ahmedabad while searching for his father, observing that the policemen acted like “colonial overlords” and used the child as “bait” to force his father to surrender.Additional Sessions Judge Parveen Singh, in an order dated August 12, said the officers were tasked with locating the boy’s father, who was wanted in a criminal case, and had no authority to take the minor into custody and transport him across states, according to news agency PTI.“Their duty was to search for the accused who was the father of the minor and not to take the minor child in their custody and act like colonial overlords of the past and hang that minor child as a bait for his father to surrender before them.” the court said.The court was hearing…