HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY AND HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C.BHANU WRIT PETITION No.17188 of 2010 DT.27.07.2010 Mudavath Krishna …Petitioner V. The Superintendent of Police and another ..Respondents The Court made the following: HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A.GOPAL REDDY AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE K.C.BHANU WRIT PETITION No.17188 of 2010 ORDER: - (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice A.Gopal Reddy) Father of the alleged detenu – Mudavath Sree, aged 20 years filed this writ petition for issuance of a writ of Habeas Corpus for production of his son into the court and to set him at liberty by declaring the detention and arrest as illegal. It is submitted that on 06.07.2010, the petitioner’s son-in-law went to the Jadcherla Agricultural Market for the purpose of purchasing the paddy seeds. While so at 12 p.m., the 2nd respondent along with some constables forcibly had taken away petitioner’s son-in-law to the police station. When the petitioner along with his family members rushed to the police station, the petitioner found his son-in-law in the custody and asked the 2nd respondent to disclose the reasons for his arrest and the 2nd respondent refused to assign any reason. That on the next day at 11.00 a.m., while the petitioner’s son was ploughing in the agricultural fields, the 2nd respondent and his staff took him into custody and thereafter he was in illegal detention and have not been produced before the competent Court. In response to the notice, the 2nd respondent, Sub-Inspector of Police, Nagarkunool Police Station, Mahaboobnagar District, filed a counter stating that while he was conducting patrolling duty at Nagarkurnool on 15.07.2010 near Sripuram Cross Roads, he found two persons moving under suspicious circumstances. Immediately he apprehended them. On his preliminary enquiry, the alleged detenu and one Pathlavath Many @ Manyam confessed that they have committed several crimes i.e, Crime No.80 of 2010 under Section 382 IPC of Nagarkurnool Police Station, Crime No.61 of 2009 under Section 457 and 380 IPC, Crime No.85 of 2009 under Section 379 IPC and crime No.90 of 2010 under Section 380 IPC. After recording the confessional statements and recovery of part of the stolen property pertaining to the above crimes from their possession, the detenus were produced before the Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Nagarkurnool on 16.07.2010 and they were remanded to judicial custody by the Magistrate. Pursuant to the remand order, the detenus were now lodged at Sub-Jail, Nagarkurnool. In view of the fact that the detenus were lodged at Sub-Jail, Nagarkurnool, after obtaining lawful orders from the Magistrate, the illegal detention on the alleged detenu as contended by the petitioner, does not arise. Accordingly, the Writ Petition is dismissed. No costs. ________________ A.GOPAL REDDY, J ____________ K.C.BHANU, J 27th July 2010 lmv