New Delhi, Sept. 6 -- The Delhi high court has sought a response from the Centre and the Border Security Force (BSF)on a plea seeking an inquiry into the alleged rampant misuse of BSF personnel for domestic work at the private residences of senior police and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) officers.

A bench of chief justice DK Upadhyay and justice Tushar Rao Gedela on Wednesday issued notice on a plea filed by Sanjay Yadav, serving deputy inspector general of BSF, and fixed the next hearing to January 7.

"Issue notice. Let a response to the paragraph wise averments made in the writ petition be filed by the respondents within six weeks. Two weeks thereafter shall be available to the petitioner to file rejoinder affidavit, if any," the...