THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE B.N. RAO NALLA DATED: 28-10-2011 WRIT PETITION No. 28695 OF 2011 Between: S. Lakshman and two others ..... PETITIONERS AND State of Andhra Pradesh, rep., by Secretary, Home Department, Secretariat, Hyderabad and three others .....RESPONDENTS THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE B.N. RAO NALLA WRIT PETITION No. 28695 OF 2011 ORDER: (per Sri A. Gopal Reddy, J) The petitioners who are father, mother and father of S. Sekhar, O. Malles and T. Praveen, alleged detenus respectively invoked the habeas corpus jurisdiction of this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution of India alleging that the Station House Officer, Police Station Thukaramgate, the 4th respondent herein along with his constables arrested S. Sekhar on 13-10-2001 on the pretext of investigating a theft case and on S. Sekhar disclosing the names of the other alleged detenus O. Mallesh and T. Praveen, they were also called to the police station for investigation by the 4th respondent and accordingly petitioners 2 and 3 have surrendered them on 14-10- 2011. As the alleged detenus were not released, the petitioners went to the police station of the 4th respondent where they found that the alleged detenus were beaten black and blue. Hence, the writ petition. The counter affidavit filed by the 4th respondent discloses that the alleged detenus are A-3, A-1 and A-2 in Crime No. 124 of 2011 of Tukaramgate Police Station, Hyderabad registered on 08-09-2011 for the offences punishable under Sections 382, 411 and 109 of IPC and that in connection with the said crime, they were arrested on 23-10-2011 and produced before the X Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Secunderabad who remanded them to judicial custody and pursuant to the remand order, they are now lodged at Central Prison, Chanchalguda, Hyderabad. In view of lawful orders obtained by the police for judicial remand of the alleged detenus, it cannot be said that they are in illegal detention. The contention of the learned counsel for the petitioners that the alleged detenus were beaten black and blue by the police and, therefore, necessary compensation has to be awarded to them does not fall for consideration for the simple reason that when the alleged detenus were produced before the Magistrate and when the Magistrate enquired with them as to whether they were beaten by the police, they neither complained about the illegal detention nor stated that they were beaten by the police. In that view of the matter, the petitioners are at liberty to avail the remedies available to them against the police before the appropriate forum. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. A.GOPAL REDDY, J B.N. RAO NALLA, J 28-10-2011 ks