IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD TUESDAY, THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF DECEMBER TWO THOUSAND AND TEN PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH AND THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY WRIT PETITION No. 27565 OF 2010 Between: Smt. N.Sudha Rani ..... Petitioner AND The State of Andhra Pradesh, Rep. by the Director General of Police, Lakdi-ka-pul, Hyderabad and others .....Respondents The Court made the following : ORAL ORDER: (per THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE V.ESWARAIAH) This writ petition is filed seeking a writ of habeas corpus directing the respondents to produce N.Kranthi Kumar s/o late N.Hema Sunder, aged 23 years, before this court and consequently to set him at liberty. When this writ petition is taken up for hearing, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the alleged detenu was already arrested in connection with Cr. No. 366 of 2010 registered by the Osmania University Police Station, Hyderabad, for the offences under Secs.420 and 409 IPC on 8.12.2010 on the complaint lodged by the mother of the victim girl Ms. Usha, whom the alleged detenu wanted to marry. As the mother of the petitioner herein had sent a telegram to the police complaining kidnap of her son, the alleged detenue, by the unofficial respondents, they registered a case in Cr. No. 365 of 2010 for the offences under Sec.147, 323, 365, 506 read with Sec. 149 IPC. It is stated that the police are investigating both the crimes and as there is prima facie case against the alleged detenu, he was arrested on 15.12.2010 and produced before the IV Addl. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Hyderabad, who remanded him to judicial custody. If that be so, no cause survives for adjudication in this writ petition. Consequently, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous. It is always open for the respective parties to seek appropriate remedies either for malicious prosecution or to claim damages or costs for the illegal acts, if any. No order as to costs. ________________ Justice V.Eswaraiah _____________________ Justice P.Swaroop Reddy December 21, 2010 MAS