IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT : THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE K.BALAKRISHNAN NAIR & THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE T.R.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR THURSDAY, THE 25TH OCTOBER 2007 / 3RD KARTHIKA 1929 WP(C).No. 31455 of 2007(T) -------------------------------------- PETITIONER: ----------------- UMAIMATH, AGED 36 YEARS, D/O.P.M.NINA, THANDAMKUNNATHU HOUSE, HOUSE NO.V/112 A, KARUMAKKAD, NEAR MODEL ENGINEERING COLLEGE, THRIKKAKARA, ERNAKULAM. BY ADV. SRI.K.R.VINOD RESPONDENTS: ---------------------- 1. THE STATION HOUSE OFFICER, CENTRAL POLICE STATION, ERNAKULAM- 682031. 2. THE S.I. OF POLICE, TRIKKAKARA POLICE STATION, TRIKKAKARA, ERNAKULAM- 682021. BY GOVERNMENT PLEADER SRI. P.A.SALIM THIS WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) HAVING COME UP FOR ADMISSION ON 25/10/2007, THE COURT ON THE SAME DAY DELIVERED THE FOLLOWING: K.BALAKRISHNAN NAIR & T.R.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR, JJ. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Writ Petition (C) No.31455 of 2007-T -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Judgment Balakrishnan Nair, J. The petitioner has approached this Court, alleging harassment from the part of the respondents Police Officers. She is staying alone with her two school going children. Her husband, it is submitted, deserted her three years back. There are several criminal cases pending against him. The Police are coming in search of him and knocking at her door at mid night hours under the guise of searching her husband. They are causing harassment to the petitioner and her children. Therefore, this Writ Petition is filed, seeking appropriate orders, restraining the respondents from harassing her and searching her house during the odd hours of the night. 2. The learned Government Pleader upon instruction submitted the respondents went to the house of the petitioner to execute certain warrants issued by the competent courts against her husband. In the proceedings, the address where the petitioner resides is shown as the address of her husband also and that is the reason the respondents went there. The Police deny the WPC 31455/07 2 allegations of harassment meted out to the petitioner. It is also submitted that they have no intention whatsoever to cause any harassment to her. The above submissions of the learned Government Pleader on behalf of the Police are recorded and the Writ Petition is disposed of. K.BALAKRISHNAN NAIR,JUDGE 25.10.2007 T.R.RAMACHANDRAN NAIR, JUDGE sta