IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Writ Petition No. 1527 of 2011 Date of decision : August 23, 2011 Karan Kumar Khatri ....Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others ....Respondents Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice L.N. Mittal Present: Mr. Navdeep Monga, Advocate, for the petitioner Mr. Shailesh Gupta, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab for respondents no. 1 to 4 Mr. PS Dhaliwal, Advocate, for respondent nos. 5 to 7 Petitioner and his wife and respondent nos. 5 and 7 along with alleged detenue Sunita Rani also in person L.N. Mittal, J. (Oral) Karan Kumar Khatri has filed the instant habeas corpus writ petition alleging illegal detention of his daughter Sunita Rani by private respondent nos. 5 and 6 in connivance with private respondent no. 7. Pursuant to order of this Court, respondents no. 5 to 7 appeared in person along with alleged detenue on 11.8.2011. The petitioner and his wife and sister were allowed to meet the alleged detenue in the Court room for about one hour while respondents no. 5 to 7 were sent out of the Court room although alleged detenue was reluctant to meet the petitioner and his wife Criminal Writ Petition No. 1527 of 2011 -2- and sister. On request of counsel for the petitioner, case was adjourned for today to enable the petitioner to have another meeting with the alleged detenue. Accordingly, today the petitioner and his wife have been allowed to meet the alleged detenue in the Court room. The alleged detenue Sunita Rani states that she has voluntarily married with respondent no. 5 and is voluntarily residing with respondent nos. 5 and 6 (respondent no. 6 being mother of respondent no. 5) and wants to continue to reside with them. She also states that she does not want to go or reside with petitioner and his wife who are her parents. In view of the aforesaid, learned counsel for the petitioner seeks permission to withdraw the instant writ petition without prejudice to any other legal remedy. Dismissed as withdrawn as prayed for. ( L.N. Mittal ) August 23, 2011 Judge 'dalbir'