IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD (Special Original Jurisdiction) TUESDAY, THE NINETEENTH DAY OF JULY TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE PRESENT THE HON'BLE SRI BILAL NAZKI, THE ACTING CHIEF JUSTICE And THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE G.CHANDRAIAH WRIT PETITION NO : 11295 of 2005 Between: Boya Gangamma, W/o. Shanker, R/o. Madapuram Village, Ramagiri Mandal, Ananthapur District. ..... PETITIONER AND 1 The State of Andhra Pradesh, Department of Home, Rep. by its Principal Secretary, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad. 2 The Director General & Inspector General of Police, Andhra Pradesh, Lakdikapool, Hyderabad. 3 The Superintendent of Police, Anantapur, Anantapur District. 4 The Station House Officer, Kanganapalli Police Station, Anantapur District. 5 Sri Akun Sabarwal, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Dharmavaram, Anantapur District. .....RESPONDENTS Petition under Article 226 of the constitution of India praying that in the circumstances stated in the Affidavit filed herein the High Court may be pleased to issue a Writ, order or direction more particularly one in the nature of Writ of Habeas Corpus directing the respondent police to produce the detenue Sri Boya Shankar @ Madapuram Shankar, R/o. Madapuram Village, Ramagiri Mandal, Anantapur District before this Hon'ble Court forthwith and further declare that the action of the respondent police in tonsuring his head and parading half nakedly, torturing him, tarnishing his image, and keeping in illegal custody as contrary to law, illegal, arbitrary and in violation of Art. 21 and 22 of the Constitution of India and consequently direct the respondents to pay exemplary compensation, and to pass such other order or orders. Counsel for the Petitioner : MR.VENKATESWARLU POSANI Counsel for the Respondents : THE ADVOCATE GENERAL The Court made the following : ORDER : (Per Hon’ble Sri Bilal Nazki, ACJ) On the allegations of the writ petitioner that her husband was taken into custody and was subjected to torture, the Court ordered an enquiry by the Sessions Judge, Anantapur. He has submitted the report. He has recorded the statements of witnesses as well as the detenu. The detenu has denied all the allegations levelled by the petitioner in the writ petition and submitted that he is involved in 22 cases, which are pending in various Courts. He has stated that he was arrested and produced before the Magistrate. Since he was a poor man, he could not even apply for bail. The petitioner also appeared before the learned Sessions Judge and stated that whatever she had stated in her writ petition, was stated by her at the instance of somebody. She had no personal knowledge in the matter. In this view of the matter, no further orders are necessary to be passed in this writ petition, which is accordingly dismissed. No order as to costs. __________________ (BILAL NAZKI, ACJ) 19th July 2005. __________________ (G.CHANDRAIAH, J) ajr To 1 The Principal Secretary, Department of Home, State of Andhra Pradesh, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad. 2 The Director General & Inspector General of Police, Andhra Pradesh, Lakdikapool, Hyderabad. 3 The Superintendent of Police, Anantapur, Anantapur District. 4 The Station House Officer, Kanganapalli Police Station, Anantapur District. 5 Sri Akun Sabarwal, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Dharmavaram, Anantapur District. 6 Two C.Cs. to the Advocate-General, High Court of AP, Hyderabad (OUT) 7 Two C.D. copies.