HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.12697 of 2010 Date 23.08.2010 Between: B.S.Spandana. ..... PETITIONER AND The State of A.P. rep. By its Superintendent of Police, Medak at Sanga Reddy & others. .....RESPONDENTS Counsel for the petitioner :Sri P.Sashi Kiran Counsel for the Respondent Nos:1 to 3 : Assistant Government Pleader for Home Counsel for the Respondent No:4 & 5 : None appeared HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.12697 of 2010 ORDER: This Writ Petition is filed for a Mandamus to declare the action of respondent Nos.1 and 2 in seeking to interfere with the life and personal liberty of the petitioner at the instance of respondent Nos.4 and 5 as illegal and arbitrary. The facts of the case present a rather strange picture where the petitioner alleges that at the instance of her own parents, who are respondent Nos. 4 and 5, the police are interfering with her life and personal liberty. The petitioner appeared to have married a person by name B.S.Vinayak against the wishes of her parents. Evidently, the petitioner reached an understanding with her husband to part ways by obtaining divorce by mutual consent. Respondent Nos. 4 and 5 had filed a private complaint against the petitioner’s husband alleging dowry harassment. On the basis of the private complaint, Crime No.17 of 2010 was registered against the petitioner’s husband by respondent No.2, Uppal Police Station. In this scenario, the petitioner alleges that, at the instance of respondent Nos. 4 and 5, she has been facing life threat from the police. Learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home, on instructions, submitted that the petitioner is not an accused in any criminal case, that she is not wanted by the police, that the police merely insisted on the petitioner to give a statement in connection with the pending criminal case against her husband and that except approaching the petitioner for the said purpose, the police are not interfering with her life and personal liberty. In my opinion, when the petitioner is not an accused in any criminal case and unless she volunteers to give any statement, she cannot be compelled by the police to give statements against her husband or anybody else for that matter. In the light of the stand taken by the learned Assistant Government Pleader for Home on behalf of the police that they are not interfering with the life and personal liberty of the petitioner, the Writ Petition is disposed of with the direction that the petitioner cannot be compelled to give statements without her consent. As a sequel to disposal of the main petition, WPMP.No.15980 of 2010 filed by the petitioner for interim relief is disposed of as infructuous. C.V.NAGARJUNA REDDY,J Date:23.08.2010 usd