In an affidavit filed before the court, Model Town police said police had conducted raids at the addresses of the accused persons in Uttar Pradesh three times but failed to recover the prosecutrix.

Only one accused Raja Ram was arrested in January this year while the two other accused Dashrath and Kamlesh were yet to be traced, the affidavit said.

A division bench comprising Justice Dalveer Bhandari and Justice Madan Lokur, while expressing serious concern over the issue, had on Friday ordered the police to file a status report on the probe by Monday.

The direction came when petitioner's counsel Ajay Gupta alleged that police did not probe the case seriously despite addresses of the accused persons were given to them.

The petition seeking a CBI inquiry into the matterhad alleged that the 14-year-old girl was abducted by the accused persons, who were known to the family, from her house in Rajpura in north-west Delhi on September nine last year and they were demanding a ransom of Rs 50,000 from her father.

The affidavit said police had recently chargesheeted accused persons in a city court and the two accused, yet to be traced, were declared `proclaimed offenders'.