The Bombay High Court yesterday asked the state government to inform it in two weeks how 13 witnesses in a case of custodial death had gone missing since September 2010, failing which it would order the state DGP or other competent authority to conduct a judicial probe.

The direction was given by a bench headed by Justice Abhay Oka, which pulled up the state and jail authorities for their stand that the witnesses in this case were not traceable since last six years.