Dixit 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.1378 OF 2009 Suryamani Khetalram Jaiswar ... Petitioner Vs. State of Maharashtra & Anr. ... Respondents Mr. S.B. Shetye i/b. Mr. Irfan A. Shaikh for Petitioner. Smt. U.V. Kejariwal, APP, for Respondent-State. CORAM : SMT. RANJANA DESAI & R.G. KETKAR, JJ. DATED : 10TH JUNE, 2009. P.C.:- 1. This petition is not on board. It is mentioned urgently by learned counsel for the petitioner and hence it is taken on board. 2. This petition is filed by one Suryamani Khetalram Jaiswar. He has sought a writ in the nature of habeas corpus directing the first respondent to produce his wife Navjot Kaur Goraya before this court. It is the petitioner’s case that he got married to Navjot Kaur Dixit 2 Goraya on 4th July, 2008 at Thane according to Hindu Vedic Rites. The marriage is registered at N.M.M.C. Office, Turbhe on 4th August, 2008. According to the petitioner the parents of Navjot had forcibly taken her to Punjab. This petition was moved before the vacation court on 20th May, 2009. On that day a direction was given to Nerul Police Station to produce Navjot Kaur Goraya in this court. Accordingly the police have brought Navjot Kaur Goraya to the court. The petitioner is also present. We have interviewed Navjot Kaur Goraya in open court. She told that she is 22 years of age. She further stated that she got married to the petitioner on 4th July, 2008 and at that time she was 21 years of age. She stated that she wants to live with the petitioner. We asked her whether she is making this statement under any threat, coercion or pressure. She replied that she was not under any threat, pressure or coercion and that she is making this statement voluntarily and of her own free will. We have also interviewed the petitioner. The petitioner has also confirmed the facts which he has averred in the petition. We have also interviewed the advocate of the petitioner and the parents of Navjot Kaur Goraya. Dixit 3 3. Considering the fact that Navjot Kaur Goraya is major and that she has married the petitioner, Navjot is free to go with the petitioner. Since Navjot is produced in the court, the petition has become infructuous. The petition is disposed of. [SMT. RANJANA DESAI, J.] [R.G. KETKAR, J.]