IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CR. WJC No.304 of 2011 Mithu Khalifa, Son of Nemal Khalifa, resident of village-Kenduadih, No. 4, P.S.-Kenduadih, District-Dhanbad (Jharkhand). ………….Petitioner. Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. The Superintendent of Police, District-Aurangabad. 3. The Investigating Officer of Nagar Police Station Aurangabad Case No. 199 of 2009. 4. Md. Samim Khalifa, son of late Jamaluddin Khalifa, R/o Village-Bratpur, P.S.-Aurangabad Nagar, District-Aurangabad. ----------- 7 14.07.2011 The petitioner has filed this Habeas Corpus application for recovery and production of his daughter and her minor child. Petitioner alleges that his daughter was married to respondent No. 4 namely Md. Samim Khalifa of Aurangabad. He mistreated her, beat her and, ultimately, threw her out from house. A formal F.I.R. was lodged but, unfortunately, even though over three years have gone by, neither the daughter nor his son has been recovered. Counter affidavit has been filed on behalf of respondent No. 2 from which it appears that in terms of Section 173 (8) of the Cr.P.C., the superintendent of Police, Aurangabad has ordered that the investigation shall continue till the two are recovered. But the question is what are the steps to be taken and when will they be recovered. Three years have already gone by. We, accordingly, direct the Zonal D.I.G., Gaya, to personally look into the matter and take this case to its logical end as the petitioner being resident of Dahanbad is unable to personally do 2 anything in the matter at Aurangabad. The Zonal D.I.G., Gaya is directed to communicate with the petitioner at the address given in the writ petition regarding the step he has taken and seek any information that he would like. It is expected that with the intervention of the Zonal D.I.G., Gaya, the matter would reach to its logical end preferably within a period of three months from the date of communication of this order to him. Let the learned counsel for the State communicate the order and liberty is granted to the petitioner to file the same along with any other paper he would wish to file before D.I.G. concerned. With the aforesaid observation and direction, the writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of. Sanjeet/ (Navaniti Prasad Singh, J.) (Ashwani Kumar Singh, J.)