HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE D.S.R.VARMA AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY TAKEN UP WRIT PETITION NO. 23463 OF 2005 DATE: 23.10.2006 Between: S. Sashidhar, H.No. 2-4-938/A, Kachiguda, Hyderabad. …Petitioner AND 1. The Superintendent of Police, Mahaboobnagar District at Mahaboobnagar and three others. ….Respondents HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE D.S.R.VARMA AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P.SWAROOP REDDY TAKEN UP WRIT PETITION NO. 23463 OF 2005 ORAL ORDER: (per the Hon’ble Sri Justice D.S.R.VARMA) Heard the learned Government Pleader for Home, representing the learned Advocate General, representing the respondents. 2. This writ petition is taken up on the basis of a ‘petition’, dated 24.10.2005, sent by one S. Sashidhar, R/o H.No. 2-4-938/A, Kachiguda, Hyderabad, to the Hon’ble The Chief Justice, High Court of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, alleging that his mother by name Smt. Santhamma, who is working as a Farm Foreman in Government Sericulture Department, Mahaboobnagar, is missing since 2.6.2005 and the police had not yet taken any action, and seeks appropriate direction to the concerned authorities to take steps to trace out the petitioner’s mother. 3. Upon receipt of notice issued by this court, the Inspector of Police, Bowenpally, Secunderabad, filed a counter affidavit stating, inter alia, that the petitioner had lodged a complaint and on receipt of the said complaint, a case in Crime No. 339 of 2005 under the head ‘Woman Missing’ was registered on 5.11.2005, the investigation is in progress and the matter is pending since about a year. 4. In similar circumstances, a Division Bench of this court in Writ Petition No. 1388 of 2006 by order dated, 18.7.2006, directed the 3rd respondent therein-Commissioner of Police to personally supervise the matter and produce the missing person in the Court as and when he is found out. In the meantime, the investigating officer was directed to give report, after four weeks, to the Registrar (Judicial) of this Court, about the progress of the case. 5. Following the same, the Writ Petition is allowed, at the stage of admission, and the first respondent – Superintendent of Police, Mahaboobnagar District, is directed to personally supervise the matter and produce the missing woman in the Court as and when she is found out. In the meantime, the investigating officer shall give a report, after four weeks, to the Registrar (Judicial) of this Court, about the progress of the case. No order as to costs. _________________ D.S.R.VARMA, J _______________________ P. SWAROOP REDDY, J Dated: 23.10.2006 KA