IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE P.R.RAMAN & THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE V.K.MOHANAN TUESDAY, THE 4TH MARCH 2008 / 14TH PHALGUNA 1929 WP(Crl.).No. 25 OF 2008(S) PETITIONER: ASHA.S, THOPPUVILAKATHU VEEDU, T.C.22/664, CHIRAMUKKU, MANACADU P.O., THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. BY ADV. SRI.J.HARIKUMAR SRI.HARIKUMAR.S. RESPONDENTS: 1. THE CITY COMMISSIONER OF POLICE, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 2. THE CIRCLE INSPECTOR OF POLICE, FORT POLICE STATION, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 3. THE SUB INSPECTOR OF POLICE, FORT POLICE STATION, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. 4. SADASIVAN, OTTUVILAKATHU VEEDU, PANTHAPLAVILA, NEAR KONCHIRAVILA TEMPLE, KONCHIRAVILA, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM. GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI. C.M. KAMMAPPU THIS WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 04/03/2008, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: P.R. RAMAN & V. K. MOHANAN, JJ. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = W.P.(CRL) NO. 25 OF 2008 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = DATED THIS, THE 4TH DAY OF MARCH, 2008. J U D G M E N T Raman, J. Petitioner has filed this writ petition seeking for a direction to the respondents to produce the body of her husband Sreejith who is said to have been missing from 1.6.2006 and to set him free. 2. As directed, the second respondent conducted a discrete enquiry and filed a report, prima facie showing that the missing person has left home due to family problems and the investigation is in progress; but the whereabouts of the missing person could not be traced out. When the case was taken up for consideration today, the alleged detenu appeared before us on his own and we interacted with him. He stated that the petitioner is his wife and he is not under the illegal custody of anybody as alleged by the petitioner. When even without an order or direction, the alleged detenu voluntarily appeared before us and further when he stated that he is a free person, we have no doubt in our mind that the allegation raised in the writ petition that he is under any illegal custody is not correct. In such circumstances, this writ petition is closed. The remedy, if WP(CRL) 25/08 :2: any, open to the petitioner, by approaching any forum to solve the family dispute, if any, is left open. P.R. RAMAN, (JUDGE) V. K. MOHANAN, (JUDGE) knc/-