In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh ...... Criminal W.P. No.557 of 2007 ..... Date of decision:8.8.2007 Jagir Singh .....Petitioner v. State of Punjab and others .....Respondents .... Present: Mr. H.S. Batth, Advocate for the petitioner with Mr. Jagir Singh, petitioner in person. Mr. I.P.S. Sidhu, Senior Deputy Advocate General, Punjab for the respondent-State with SI Baldev Singh, Police Station, Sadar, Patti. ..... S.S. Saron, J. (Oral) This petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India has been filed for issuance of a writ in the nature of habeas corpus for the immediate release of the detenue Smt. Lakhwinder Kaur daughter of the petitioner from the illegal custody of respondents No.5 and 6. Smt. Lakhwinder Kaur has been produced in Court by SI Baldev Singh, Police Station, Sadar, Patti. She is identified by her father Jagir Singh (petitioner) who is present in Court. Ranjit Singh alias Gora (respondent No.5) is also present, who is identified by SI Baldev Singh. It is submitted by Smt. Lakhwinder Kaur in Court that she is 22 years of age and is residing with Ranjit Singh (respondent No.5) of her own free will and desire. SI Baldev Singh has produced on record photostat copy of the affidavit and the statement of Smt. Lakhwinder Kaur recorded before the Cr. W.P. No.557/2007 [2] Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Patti on 17.7.2007 in which she has stated that she has married Ranjit Singh alias Gora (respondent No.5) at Ludhiana and they were living as husband and wife at Ludhiana. In view of the fact that Smt. Lakhwinder Kaur has stated that she is living of her own free will with respondent No.5, nothing survives in the present petition and the same is accordingly dismissed as infructuous. August 8, 2007. (S.S. Saron) Judge *hsp*