THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.14340 OF 2007 DATED 12TH AUGUST, 2010 BETWEEN Deddam Kumaraswamy … Petitioner And State of A.P., rep. by its Principal Secretary to Home Department, Secretariat, Saifabad, Hyderabad. And Others … Respondents THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR WRIT PETITION NO.14340 OF 2007 ORDER: The petitioner assailed the action of the police authorities in not getting his wife released from the illegal detention to which she was subjected by her father, the fourth respondent. This Court, by order dated 13.07.2007, took note of the factual events which led to the filing of the writ petition, which are as under: A crime had been registered against the petitioner under Section 363 of the Indian Penal Code on 24.03.2007 in Crime No.10 of 2007 of Shankarampet Police Station, Medak District. Thereupon, the petitioner filed Writ Petition No.7328 of 2007 which was disposed of on 10.04.2007 directing the police to get the statements of the petitioner and his wife recorded under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and take appropriate action. The statement of the petitioner’s wife was recorded on 19.05.2007, whereby she accepted that she had married the petitioner voluntarily on 25.03.2007 at Dwaraka Tirumala as per Hindu Rites and that she was being illegally detained by her parents and not being permitted to join her husband. Thereafter, when the petitioner went to the house of the fourth respondent, he is said to have been attacked by the fourth respondent and his followers, but the police registered an offence against the petitioner and his friends in Crime No.19 of 2007 for offences under Sections 448 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code. The petitioner thereupon obtained bail from the Judicial First Class Magistrate, Jogipet. Keeping these facts in mind, the petitioner and his wife had been examined by this Court and after confirming the fact that the fourth respondent’s daughter had willingly married the petitioner but she was forcibly confined and not being permitted to join her husband this Court, by order dated 13.07.2007, permitted her to go along with her husband under the protection of the Sub-Inspector of Police, Shankarampet Police Station, Medak District, the third respondent. It is now stated by the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home that the petitioner and his wife-Habibunnisa, the daughter of the fourth respondent, were residing together happily and at present there are no differences. This averment is made on the basis of written instructions dated 11.08.2010 issued by the Station House Officer, Shankarampet Police Station, Medak District. In that view of the matter, no further orders are required in this writ petition which is accordingly closed. There shall be no order as to costs. ____________________ SANJAY KUMAR, J. 12TH AUGUST, 2010. VGSR/PGS