Criminal Writ Petition No. 1946 of 2011 1 In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana, at Chandigarh Criminal Writ Petition No. 1946 of 2011 Date of Decision: 14.10.2011 Sem Kumar ... Petitioner Versus State of Punjab and Others ... Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA. Present: Mr. D.C. Dhaula, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Munish Kumar, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab, for respondents No.1 to 3. None for respondents No.4 to 6. Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia, J. (Oral) The present writ petition has been filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying that a writ in the nature of Habeas Corpus be issued for release of the alleged detenues, whose particulars have been given in paragraph No.4 thereof, from the unlawful of respondents No.4 to 6. Vide order dated 29.9.2011, a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court had directed the District Magistrate, Ludhiana, to furnish report in accordance with the provisions of the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act, 1976. In pursuance thereof, Rahul Tiwari, District Magistrate, Criminal Writ Petition No. 1946 of 2011 2 Ludhiana, has submitted his report by way of his affidavit and the same is taken on record. It is stated therein that all the detenues have left the brick kiln on 5.10.2011. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that since, as per the report, the detenues have been released, nothing survives in the present writ petition and the same be disposed of. As prayed, the present writ petition is disposed of with the observations that no further directions are called for. (Kanwaljit Singh Ahluwalia) Judge October 14, 2011 “DK”