THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No. 843 OF 2008 DATED: 11-2-2008 Between: Sri G. Anki Reddy ……………Petitioner And The Station House Officer, East Tirupathi Police Station, Chittoor District and four others ……………Respondents ORDER: (per Hon’ble Sri Justice A. Gopal Reddy, J) Telegram dated 4-1-2008 sent by the petitioner to the Hon’ble the Chief Justice has been taken up as a writ petition. In the said telegram, the petitioner alleged that he gave complaint to the police of East Tirupahti Police Station, Tirupathi complaining about the missing of his daughter G. Swapna from 19-12-2007 and that no action has been taken by the police and therefore, necessary direction be given to investigate into the matter. In response to the notice, Sub-Inspector of Police, Tirupathi East Police Station, Chittor District filed a counter affidavit stating that pursuant to the complaint lodged by the complainant, a case in Crime No. 322 of 2007 under the head ‘girl missing’ was registered on 20-12- 2007 and investigation was taken up. During the course of investigation, he examined the complainant and his wife and recorded their statements under Section 161 Cr.P.C and issued look out notices to all the police stations in the Chittoor District about the missing girl. It is stated that the investigation done so far revealed that the suspected person Srikakulam Muniraja @ Muni, son of S. Munikrishna, who was residing at Lakshmipuram, Tirupathi Town and working as a Mechanic in the mechanic shed of one Mr. Srrenivasulu near the hotel of the complainant was also not available at his house and that their investigation revealed that both the missing girl and Muniraja fell in love and eloped. The police suspected the brothers of Muniraja viz., S. Lokeswaran and S. Dhananya. On enquiry, they have stated that they are not aware of the missing girl. It is further stated that necessary police constables have been deputed to various places to make search of the missing girl, but so far no clues are available about the whereabouts of the girl. In view of the same, it is clear that the police are intensifying the search for the whereabouts of the girl and after completing the investigation, they have to file necessary report by marking a copy of the same to the petitioner. The writ petition is accordingly closed. A. GOPAL REDDY, J NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J Dated: 11-02-2008 ks