IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CR. WJC No.436 of 2008 MEENA KUMARI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 03. 19.11.2010 The informant of Hisua P. S. Case No. 94 of 2007, namely, Meena Kumari had filed this Criminal Writ Application for a direction to the respondents to recover her son, who is in the captivity of the accused persons, named in the First Information Report. Her allegation was that the First Information Report named accused persons have kidnapped her son in order to murder and till date he has been kept by them under their captivity. Considering the prayer of the petitioner, direction was issued to the Superintendent of Police, Nawada to investigate the matter. Different counter affidavits have been filed. Finally, by order dated 11.12.2008, considering the counter affidavits filed on behalf of the Superintendent of Police, Nawada, especially the counter affidavit dated 10th of December, 2008, it was held that in view of the counter affidavit dated 10th December, 2008 filed by the Superintendent of Police, Nawada, the boy Kumud Kumar is dead, as such the petition for Habeas Corpus does not survive and it is disposed of, accordingly. Simply, it was observed that the Superintendent of 2 Police, Nawada will continue with the investigation to be made into the death of boy, Kumud Kumar and bring the culprit to justice and the action taken report shall be submitted by the Superintendent of Police, Nawada to the Registrar General of this Court. By that the writ application was disposed off, but the matter was being listed before the Court on different dates. During this period also, the Superintendent of Police, Nawada had filed counter affidavits. He had also produced a letter in which the course of investigation to be taken by the Investigating Agency in detail was placed before the Court. Finally, affidavit has been filed on behalf of the Superintendent of Police, Nawada, wherein it has been stated that now the investigation is complete and two named accused persons, Teny Singh and Ajit Kumar have been charge-sheeted, as sufficient evidence has been collected regarding there involvement in kidnapping and killing of the son of the informant. Mr. Amarnath Deo, counsel appearing for the State, further, informed this court that during the pendency of the writ application, investigation of this case has been taken over by the CID and all subsequent affidavits have been filed by them only. 3 Final charge-sheet has also been submitted by them. Considering all these facts and also the fact the action taken report as per the direction of this Court dated 11.12.2008, has been filed, this application is disposed of. Action Taken Report is accepted. SKM (Mridula Mishra, J.) (Dharnidhar Jha, J.)