THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE B.PRAKASH RAO AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE M.VENKATESWARA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO.3860 OF 2007 Dated: 26-03-2007 Between Sri Immadi Koteswara Rao …… Petitioner And The Director General & Inspector General of Police of Andhra Pradesh, Lakdikapool, Hyderabad and five others …… Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE B.PRAKASH RAO AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE M.VENKATESWARA REDDY WRIT PETITION NO.3860 OF 2007 O R D E R: (PER BPR J.,) Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner Sri P.Venkateswarlu and also the learned Advocate General appearing for the respondents. This writ petition is filed in the nature of Habeas Corpus seeking to produce a minor girl Kumari Immadi Srilakshmi, who is the daughter of the petitioner. The facts of the case in brief are that the minor girl is working as Sales Girl in the office, which is being run by respondents 4 to 6, situated at 2nd lane, Navabharat Nagar Colony, Guntur. In the fourth week of November, the respondents informed that they intend to give training to the sales persons, including the minor girl at Rajahmundry. After completing the training, the minor girl returned to Guntur and worked in the office of the respondents for a period of one week. On 23.12.2006 the mother of the girl accompanied her and left her at the office of the respondents. Since then, her daughter did not return home. Hence, they lodged a complaint before the third respondent- police on 30.01.2007 and the same was registered as Crime No.16 of 2007. In the counter affidavit filed by the respondents it is stated that the victim girl informed their parents that she is working as Sales Girl in Sindhu Promoters. During the course of investigation, the police came to know that one Dinesh Varma who is in-charge for the training of sales girls in Sindhu Promoters is also missing since the date of missing of the daughter of the petitioner. On producing the victim girl in the Court, she stated that she married Dinesh Varma at Tirupathi in the month of December 2006 and she don’t want to go to their parents’ house and she wants to stay with her husband. In view of the view expressed by the victim girl, we do not find any merits in the writ petition. Though the learned counsel for the petitioner raised an objection that since the victim girl is a minor, she has to be given to the custody of her parents till she attains majority, but keeping in view the decision of this Court in Makemalla Sailoo Vs. Superintendent of Police, Nalgonda District, the detenue was allowed to go with her husband. In view of the above decision, the writ petition is dismissed, with a direction that the girl be handed over to the husband. No order as to costs. ________________ B.PRAKASH RAO J., _________________________ M.VENKATESWARA REDDY J., Dt.26.03.2007 tjs