IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CR. WJC No.963 of 2009 SHASHI CHOUDHARY Versus STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 6. 4.8.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. Prayer of the petitioner in this application is for a direction to respondents 1 to 5 for production of respondent no. 9 who has been illegally confined by respondents 7 and 8. The case of the petitioner is that respondent no.9 Soni Singh is his legally married wife. The petitioner and respondent no.9 being majors had solemnized their marriage in Arya Samaj Om Mandir, Om Nagar, Aamna, Raipur, Chhatisgarh. Respondents 7 and 8 who are the family members of respondent no. 9, took away respondent no. 9 giving false assurance of solemnizing their marriage in presence of the members of the Society. It is alleged that subsequently respondent no.9 was kept in confinement and she is not being allowed to come to the petitioner. A counter affidavit has been filed by respondent no.6, the Station House Officer, G.R.P.S., Bakhtiyarpur making statement that the allegation made by the petitioner regarding illegal confinement is incorrect.. Along with the counter affidavit, statement of Soni Singh respondent no.9 recorded under Sections 161 and 164 Cr. P.C. in connection with Bakhtiyarpur G.R.,P.S.Case No. 76 of 2009 has been annexed. 2 From Annexures A and B to the counter affidavit, it appears that the petitioner was willing to marry respondent no. 9 and for this purpose he forcibly wanted to take her away but she was not agreeable to this. The claim of the petitioner regarding the marriage with respondent no.9 is incorrect. There is nothing to show that respondent no. 9 being legally married wife of the petitioner has been kept in illegal confinement. There is no merit in this application. It is, accordingly, dismissed. Kanth ( Mridula Mishra, J.) ( Dharnidhar Jha, J.)