THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE V. ESWARAIAH WRIT PETITION No.7020 OF 2006 DATED: 01-02-2007 BETWEEN K. Naveen Kumar, S/o. K. Ratnaraju, Student, R/o. Plot No.54, Kalyani Nagar, Balanagar, Hyderabad. …PETITIONER AND Government of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Home Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and others. …RESPONDENTS ORDER: This writ petition has been ﬁled seeking a Writ of Mandamus to declare the action of the respondents in interfering with the life and liberty of the petitioner’s family members without there being any crime registered against them as illegal and arbitrary. 2. It is the case of the petitioner that he is a resident of Anandapeta, Podur Mandal, West Godavari District and pursuing education at Hyderabad. It is stated that his father and uncle were working as tailors in Saudi Arabia and his mother, aunt, younger brother and three sisters were residing at his native place. It is stated that his younger brother – K. Ravi Kumar was a ﬁrst year student of Intermediate studying at Kavitham and that he fell in love with one Ratna Priya daughter of Nageshwar Rao, residing with her uncle the ﬁfth respondent; his younger brother and Ratna Priya left the native place on 19.03.2006 and their whereabouts were not known. The parents of the said girl appear to have ﬁled a report of their child missing and in that connection the petitioner and other family members are being called to the police station and harassed, though they are not the accused and they have not committed any crime. 3. Counter has been ﬁled stating that the younger brother of the petitioner kidnapped a minor girl by name Ratna Priya from the village of Neredumilli and on a complaint lodged by the ﬁfth respondent a case in Cr.No.26 of 2006 was registered for the oﬀence under Section 363 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 by the third respondent. During the course of the investigation the third respondent examined nine witnesses and the investigation is in progress to trace out the victim girl. During the course of the investigation, it was disclosed that the petitioner had given shelter to his brother and victim girl and in that connection the police is making enquiries for tracing the victim girl. It is stated that the petitioner in order to avoid the process of investigation has ﬁled the present writ petition even though the police neither tortured the petitioner nor his family members and all the other allegations have also been denied. 4. In view of the aforesaid categorical denial of the allegations of the petitioner and in view of the aforesaid facts and circumstances, I do not see any ground to issue any orders in this writ petition. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. ______________ V. ESWARAIAH, J February 1, 2007 DSK