HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO W.P.No.10069 of 2011 Dated: 20-06-2011 Between: Rameshwar Lal Parihar Petitioner AND The Principal Secretary for Home, Secretariat, Hyderabad and others. Respondents. This Court made the following: HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO W.P.No.10069 of 2011 ORDER: (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice A.Gopal Reddy) Petitioner filed this writ petition seeking a writ of habeas corpus to direct the respondents to produce his missing daughter-Ms.Sibha Parihar before this Court. In the affidavit filed in support of the writ petition, petitioner stated that his daughter, aged about 16 years as usual left the house on 18.2.2011 for attending the rehearsal classes regarding the annual function of her school, but she did not return home. On the next day, he lodged a complaint before the police of Bowenpally Police Station, on which basis a case in Crime No.70 of 2011 was registered under the head ‘girl missing’. While so, he received a call on his landline phone stating that his daughter is in the custody of one Moolchand Bhatti @ Sanjay, a notorious criminal, who is involved in criminal cases. When he informed the same to the police, the third respondent altered the section of law from girl missing to under Section 363 IPC. Again the petitioner received a phone call from unknown person demanding him to pay an amount of Rs.20,00,000/- on 5.3.2011 and get back his daughter. Immediately, the petitioner informed the same to the police, but, so far, no action has been taken to trace out the missing girl. Third respondent filed a counter affidavit stating that on registration of crime, investigation has been taken up. Investigation revealed that the suspect-Mulchand Bhati @ Sanjay is an accused in Crime No.175 of 2010 and he was arrested in connection with the said crime on 29.6.2010 and subsequently, he was enlarged on bail, and now his whereabouts are not known. The police examined the wife of the suspect and that the team formed to trace out the suspect visited Nagore town of Rajasthan State, which is the native place of the suspect on 18.3.2011 and examined his old aged parents and recorded their statements. The police also gave a requisition to the concerned police of Nagore Town Police Station of Rajasthan State to trace out the suspect. It is stated that the photograph and descriptive particulars of the missing girl were placed in CID website and the Station House Officers of different police stations in the country have been requested for their cooperation in tracing out the missing girl. Thus it is stated that the police are making all efforts to trace out the missing girl as well as the suspect. In the additional counter affidavit filed today, third respondent detailed the efforts being taken by the police in tracing out the missing girl. On receipt of information from one Govindji that he received a call from the suspect from 9354281305, police made enquiries and it is learnt that the call is made from a public telephone booth owned by Vijay Kumar, Indira Colony near Government school, Bahalgarh, Haryana State. On receipt of said information, the third respondent made a requisition to the Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City on 14.6.2011 to accord permission to send a team to Haryana to trace out the suspect and the alleged detenue and as soon as the permission is accorded, a team will be sent to Haryana State. Having regard to the efforts being made by the investigating agency, we direct that the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad having jurisdiction over the area shall supervise the investigation and see that the entire investigation will be completed within six weeks from today and during the course of investigation, if the missing girl and suspect are traced out, necessary report has to be filed before the Magistrate concerned with due intimation to the petitioner. With the above direction, the writ petition is disposed of. No costs. ________________ A. GOPAL REDDY, J. __________________ JUNE 20, 2011 RAJA ELANGO, J. Tsr.