India, Sept. 1 -- The Delhi High Court has deprecated the police for not arresting a nurse, alleged to be the main accused in a 2024 child trafficking case despite the gravity of the offence, asserting police cannot "pick and choose".

Justice Girish Kathpalia, while rejecting the bail plea by a co-accused in the case, observed that the court cannot approve of the State's policy to selectively arrest only some of the accused persons.

The present applicant, along with another co-accused, allegedly impersonated as husband and wife when they adopted an infant girl, who was then sold to another co-accused.

He contended that he had been falsely implicated and that the main accused, nurse Kulvinder Kaur, was yet to be arrested.

"Of course, t...