THE HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE T.MEENA KUMARI & THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE G. CHANDRAIAH WRIT PETITION NO.18658 OF 2006 Dated: 29.1.2007 Between: Kampa Venkateswarlu ..... PETITIONER AND The Principal Secretary, Home Department, A.P. Secretariat, Hyderabad and others. Respondents. HON'BLE SMT. JUSTICE T.MEENA KUMARI & THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE G. CHANDRAIAH WRIT PETITION No.18658 of 2006 ORDER: (Per Hon’ble Smt. Justice T. Meena Kumari) The petitioner ﬁled the present writ petition seeking a direction to the respondents 1 to 3 herein to trace out his daughter, Kampa Suneeta, who is alleged to be found missing. When the matter has been taken up for hearing, learned Advocate General has submitted that the investigation revealed that the alleged detenu has left her matrimonial home and went along with one Tatiparthi Ezra of Kothapatnam Village and Mandal, Prakasam District. Thereafter, she married the said person and returned to her parents’ home on 20.1.007 after feeling home sick. Apart from that, a detailed counter aﬃdavit has been ﬁled by the respondents wherein the respondents have narrated about the efforts made by them to trace out the alleged detenu. In the counter aﬃdavit ﬁled by the respondents, the respondents have stated that while the investigation was in progress, on 20.1.2007, the alleged detenu came back to her paternal home and thereafter she was produced before the Mandal Revenue Oﬃcer, Chirala. The alleged detenu made a statement before the Mandal Revenue Oﬃcer stating that her marriage took place with one Devara Gopi of Stuvartpuram and as she was not happy with the said Gopi, she obtained divorce and thereafter she married one Devara Suresh of Epurupalem. As the said Suresh was also harassing her, she left him and went along with one Tatiparthi Ezra of Kothapatnam Village and started living with him. She further confessed before the Mandal Revenue Officer stating that she did not inform her parents about the marriage and as she was feeling home sick, she came back to her parents’ house. She also stated that she voluntarily went with the said Ezra and she was not kidnapped by any one. The Mandal Revenue Oﬃcer, thereafter issued a certiﬁcate stating that the alleged detenu has been moving freely in the village. In view of the averments made by the respondents in the counter aﬃdavit stating that the alleged detenu is not under illegal detention and she has been moving freely in the village, no further orders are required to be passed in the writ petition. The writ petition is accordingly dismissed. ___________________ T. Meena Kumari,J Date: 29.1.2007 _________________ G. Chandraiah,J pnb