HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE D.S.R.VARMA AND HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY TAKEN UP WRIT PETITION NO.20411 OF 2006 Dated:09.10.2006 Koneru Ramesh …Petitioner The Station House Officer, Patamata Police Station, Vijayawada and five others. …Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE D.S.R.VARMA AND HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY TAKEN UP WRIT PETITION No.20411 OF 2006 ORAL ORDER: (per the Hon’ble Sri Justice D.S.R.Varma) Heard the learned Government Pleader for Home, representing the learned Advocate General, appearing for the respondents. 2. This writ petition is taken up on the basis of a letter, dated 17.09.2006, addressed to the Hon’ble the Chief Justice, High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, by one Koneru Ramesh, R/o. Patamata, Vijayawada, Krishna District. The grievance of the petitioner in his letter is that the Police of Patamata Police Station, Vijayawada, Krishna District, have failed in registering a crime regarding the missing of his daughter, by name Koneru Nagasri. 3. Upon receipt of notice issued by this Court, the first respondent-Inspector of Police, Patamata Police Station, Vijayawada City, Krishna District, filed counter-affidavit stating, inter alia, that on 10.09.2006 at about 10 p.m., the petitioner had lodged a complaint regarding the missing of his daughter, Koneru Nagasri, and on the same day, the said complaint was registered as a case in Crime No.547 of 2006 under the head of “Girl Missing” and investigation was taken up. It is further stated that on 11.09.2006, at about 3 p.m., the dead body of the daughter of the petitioner was found in an irrigation canal at Punadipadu Village of Kankipadu Mandal, Krishna District, and in this connection a case in Crime No.215 of 2006 was registered for the offence punishable under Section-174 Cr.P.C., and that investigation and other consequential procedural formalities have also been taken up. 4. In view of the above said facts, it is to be seen that the missing girl had been traced, but dead, and was also identified by the petitioner and the cause of death is yet to be investigated into. Further, as regards the grievance of the petitioner that proper care is not being taken by the Police to expedite the investigation into the matter, it is stated in the counter-affidavit that four Special Teams have been pressed into service in order to find out the cause of death of daughter of the petitioner. 5. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case and also in view of the revelations made in the counter-affidavit, we do not propose to proceed any further in this writ petition and the same is liable to be closed. 6. Accordingly, the writ petition is closed, at the stage of admission. _______________ D.S.R.VARMA, J 09.10.2006 DR/KRK ____________________ P.SWAROOP REDDY, J