THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO WRIT PETITION No. 558 OF 2008 DATED: 04-2-2008 Between: Ayesha Sultana ……………Petitioner And The Station House Officer, Central Crime Station, Hyderabad and another ……………Respondents ORDER: (per Hon’ble Sri Justice A. Gopal Reddy, J) Letter dated 08-01-2008 sent by the petitioner to the Hon’ble the Chief Justice has been taken up as a writ petition. In the said letter, the petitioner alleged that on 05-01-2008, the police personnel of Central Crime Station, Hyderabad trespassed into her house and caught hold of her two daughters viz., Mahjabeen and Syeda Asfiya, bet them, torn their clothes and forcibly taken them in a police jeep and since then they are illegally confined. It is further alleged that the police are neither releasing her daughters nor producing them in the Court. In response to the notice, the Station House Officer, Central Crime Station, Hyderabad filed an affidavit stating that the alleged detenus are accused Nos. 3 and 4 in Crime No.127 of 2007 registered for the offence under Sections 457 and 380 IPC of Central Crime Station, Hyderabad. The crime was initially registered by Saidabad Police Station on 19-10-2007 vide Crime No. 273 of 2007 and subsequently, it was transferred to the 1st respondent – police station on 27-10-2007 for further investigation. In connection with the said crime, the alleged detenus were arrested on 8-1-2008 intimating the factum of their arrest and on 9-1-2008, they were produced before the XII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad. The learned Magistrate remanded them to judicial custody and accordingly, they were lodged at Women Cell, Central Prison, Chenchalguda, Hyderabad. The order dated 11-1-2008 passed by the learned XII Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad in Crl.M.P No. 109 of 2008 discloses that the alleged detenus were ordered for police custody on the application filed by the Inspector of Police, East Zone Team, CCS, DD, Hyderabad with a direction to produce them before the Court on or before 17-1-2008 at 5.00 PM. From a perusal of the counter and the order passed by the learned Magistrate, it is clear that the alleged detenus were detained in custody after obtaining lawful orders from the competent criminal court having jurisdiction over the matter. In view of the same, the allegations contained in the letter addressed by the petitioner that the alleged detenus were illegally detained cannot be accepted. The writ petition is, therefore, dismissed. A. GOPAL REDDY, J NOOTY RAMAMOHANA RAO, J Dated: 04-02-2008 ks