Criminal Writ Petition No. 637 of 2010 1 In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, at Chandigarh Criminal Writ Petition No. 637 of 2010 Date of Decision: 15.11.2011 Sonu Parshad ... Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and Others ... Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA. Present: Ms. Gursharan K Mann , Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. S.S Chandumajra, Deputy Advocate General, Punjab, for respondents No.1 to 4. None for respondents No.5 to 8. Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia, J. (Oral) The present writ petition has been filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for issuance of a writ in the nature of Habeas Corpus for release of Pooja, daughter of the petitioner, who is stated to have been unlawfully detained by respondents No. 5 to 8. In compliance with the order dated 14.9.2011, passed by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court, status report has been filed by Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, IPS, who has been appointed as Special Investigating Officer. The same is taken on record. It is stated therein that the detenue Pooja was traced on 28.9.2011 from Janakpuri, New Criminal Writ Petition No. 637 of 2010 2 Delhi. Thereafter, she was medicolegally examined on 29.9.2011 and was produced in the Court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Amritsar, on 30.9.2011. After her statement was recorded under Section 164 Cr.P.C., the detenue has been handed over to the petitioner. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that in view of the above, the present writ petition has been rendered infructuous, however, she has prayed that liberty be granted to the petitioner to take recourse to the lawful remedy, available to him, for taking all the erring officials/respondents to task. As prayed, the present writ petition is disposed of as infructuous with the liberty aforesaid. (Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia) Judge November 15, 2011 “DK”