1 2698.11 SQP IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL WRIT PETITION NO.2698 OF 2011 Ambresh Chandrakant Godhale ...Petitioner Versus The State of Maharashtra & Ors. ...Respondents ...... Mr.Akhilesh Singh for Petitioner. Mr.V.B.Konde-Deshmukh, A.P.P. for Respondent-State. ...... CORAM:- A.M.KHANWILKAR AND P.D.KODE, JJ. (IN CHAMBERS) DATED:- SEPTEMBER 21, 2011. P.C. 1. Pursuant to the order passed on 16th September, 2011, the respondent No.3 has caused to produce respondent No.4 before us. It is noticed that the respondent No.4 is a major and competent to take her own decision. To reassure ourselves, we interviewed her in Chambers. She has denied the claim of the petitioner. She submits that she knows the petitioner as he stays near the house of her grandmother. Beyond that, she has no relationship with the petitioner. In any case, on specific query made by the Court, she has emphatically rejected the suggestion of going with the petitioner. 2 2698.11 2. Since this is habeas corpus Petition and the respondent No.4 having appeared before us, coupled with the fact that on interviewing her, we find that she is not willing to go with the petitioner out of her own free will without any duress from her father or family members, no further order can be passed in this Petition. The same is disposed of. 3. We, however, place on record the submission of the petitioner that the respondent No.4 has been tortured by her family members. We need not examine that contention in the present proceedings. We dispose of this Petition with liberty to the petitioner to pursue such other remedy as may be permissible in law, which will have to be decided on its own merits in accordance with law. All questions in that behalf are left open. (P.D.KODE, J.) (A.M.KHANWILKAR, J.)