Criminal Writ Petition No. 1996 of 2011 1 In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, at Chandigarh Criminal Writ Petition No. 1996 of 2011 Date of Decision: 12.10.2011 Gursharan Singh ... Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and Others ... Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA. Present: Mr. A.D.S. Sukhija, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Gaurav Garg Dhuriwala, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab, for the respondents. Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia, J. (Oral) Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that Kulwinder Singh, father-in-law of the petitioner, was unlawfully detained by respondents No.2 and 3 for a period of four days but now he has been released. He further submits that since the alleged detenue has been released, the present writ petition has been rendered infructuous, however, a liberty be granted to the petitioner to take the erring police officials to task for having unlawfully detained Kulwinder Singh, by filing a complaint and further to approach the Punjab State Human Rights Commission for grant of compensation. Criminal Writ Petition No. 1996 of 2011 2 As prayed, the present writ petition is disposed of as infructuous with the liberty aforesaid. (Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia) Judge October 12, 2011 “DK”