India, Sept. 12 -- The police must shed personal biases and act with absolute integrity to their call of duty, said the Supreme Court on Thursday as it pulled up the Maharashtra police for failing to register a case of assault on a Muslim minor boy during a communal riot that broke out at Akola in 2013.

The bench of Justices Sanjay Kumar and Satish Chandra Sharma took serious exception to the "patent dereliction of duty" on the part of superintendent of police (SP) Sandip Ghuge and the station in-charge of Old City Police Station, Akola, who refused to register the boy's complaint. It directed the home secretary to instruct the rank and file of the police department on their duties, and also the setting up of a special investigation team...