IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE D.S.R.VARMA AND THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE D. APPA RAO WRIT PETITION NO. 6545 OF 2007 Dated : April 26, 2007 Between: Ms. Mariam Fatima Petitioner AND The Station House Officer, Abids Police Station, Abids, Hyderabad and others Respondents THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE D.S.R.VARMA AND THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE D.APPA RAO WRIT PETITION NO. 6545 OF 2007 ORAL ORDER: (per THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE D.APPA RAO Heard the learned Government Pleader for Home, appearing for the respondents. 2. This writ petition is taken up on the basis of a ‘Petition’, dated 12.03.2007, issued by one Mariam Fatima D/o: Mirza Ali Hassan, alleging that Mr. Amer Ali Khan son of the Editor of ‘Siasat, a Urdu Daily, and his henchmen, have allegedly kidnapped and gang raped the petitioner and sold the petitioner herein to a brothel home at Pune and she was rescued by National Law Trust with the help of Police Commissioner of Pune, Maharashtra State, but however, without recording the statement of the petitioner, obtained her signatures on blank papers and on other similar allegations. 3. In response to the notices, issued by this Court, the Inspector of Police, Abids Police Station, filed counter- affidavit, inter alia stating that Ms. Mariam Fatima, the petitioner herein, never told that Mr. Amer Ali Khan, son of the Editor, ‘Siasat’ Urdu Daily and his associates have kidnapped and raped her. At any rate, on her complaint, a case in Cr. No. 13 of 2006 was registered for the offences under Sec. 344,, 363, 366(A), 372, 373 read with Sec. 34 IPC and Secs. 3, 4, 5 and 6 of Prevention of Immoral Traffic Act, by the Farashkhana Police Station, Pune City. It is further stated that on a similar complaint to the State Human Rights Commission, a detailed report was submitted to the State Human Rights Commission and the enquiry is pending. In view of the fact that a Competent Authority has taken up the matter and a verdict is awaited, we do not propose to continue the enquiry in this writ petition, any further. Accordingly, the present writ petition is closed, at the stage of admission, with a request to the State Human Rights Commission to conduct necessary enquiry into the matter. However, there shall be no order as to costs. _____________ D.S.R.Varma, J. _____________ D.Appa Rao, J. April 26, 2007 Copy of the Order shall be forwarded to the A.P. Human Rights Commission, Hyderabad. //BO// MAS