HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE D.S.R.VARMA AND HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY TAKEN UP WRIT PETITION NO.18531 OF 2006 Dated:27.09.2006 V.B.Lavanya and two others. …Petitioners The Station House Officer, I Town Police Station, Chittoor and four others. …Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE D.S.R.VARMA AND HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY TAKEN UP WRIT PETITION No.18531 OF 2006 ORAL ORDER: (per 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 three letters, dated 25.08.2006, addressed to the Hon’ble the Chief Justice, High Court of Andhra Pradesh, by one V.B.Lavanya, Sonia and Hamsa, residents of Greamspet, Chittoor, alleging that their husbands were kidnapped on 24.08.2006, in the midnight, by one Ramakrishnappa, Kamalamma, Eswara and Krishna, residents of Akshiah Nagar, Ramamurthi Nagar Police Station, Bangalore, Karnataka, Constables Pulikuppan and another of Ramamurthi Nagar Police Station and Rajendran, Constable of I Town Police Station, Chittoor, from their respective houses and it is further alleged that they also outraged the modesty of the petitioners. 3. Upon notice being issued by this Court, the first respondent-Sub-Inspector of Police, Traffic Police Station, Chittoor, holding in-charge of I Town Police Station, Chittoor, filed counter-affidavit stating, inter alia, that there was no such kidnap of the husbands of the petitioners at all, as alleged by the petitioners in their respective letters, and that to that effect the Mandal Executive Magistrate- cum-Mandal Revenue Officer, Chittoor, addressed a letter to the Sub-Inspector of Police, I Town Police Station, Chittoor, stating that he got the case enquired into and during the enquiry, the alleged kidnapped persons were identified, brought and produced before him and further, their statements were also recorded. It is further on record that the matter had already been submitted by the Sub- Divisional Police Officer, Palamaner, Incharge of Chittoor Sub-Division to the Superintendent of Police in order to place the same before the State Human Rights Commission. 4. From the revelations in the counter-affidavit, it appears that a similar complaint had been taken up by the State Human Rights Commission and action had also been taken up. Therefore, this Court need not interfere in this matter. 5. However, having regard to the fact that the alleged kidnapped persons were identified and the alleged kidnap was denied by the Mandal Revenue Officer, Chittoor, 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 27.09.2006 DR/KRK ____________________ P.SWAROOP REDDY, J