New Delhi, Sep 16 - Delhi High Court Wednesday pulled up the police for failing to find a 13-year-old girl for nearly a year after she had eloped with a boy. As she was found to be pregnant when she was traced, the court has asked the government to look after her medical needs as well.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Manmohan said: 'It's a shocking incident. What was the police doing for the past so many months when the girl was missing?'

The court was hearing the plea of the parents of the teenager, who went missing Oct 3 last year and was traced Sep 9 this year from Ludhiana along with the boy she had eloped with.

The girl's father, an assistant sub-inspector with the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), had lodged a missing complaint with the police, who couldn't trace her for months on end.