BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT DATED:20.12.2011 CORAM: THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.JAICHANDREN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE S.NAGAMUTHU HABEAS CORPUS PETITION(MD).No.501 of 2011 Nirmala :Petitioner -Vs- 1.The Superintendent of Police, Karur District, Karur. 2.The Inspector of Police,Pasupathipalayam Police Station,Karur District. 3.Raja 4.Mayavan :Respondents PRAYER:Petition is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus directing the respondents to produce the person and body of the petitioner's son namely Manoj Prabhakar aged about 18 years, S/o.Late Sivasubramanian, before this Court and set him at liberty. For Petitioner : Mr.E.K.Kumaraesan For Respondents1&2 : Mr.C.Ramesh,Additional Public Prosecutor For Respondents 3&4 : Mr.S.Gokulraj ORDER [Order of the Court was made by S.NAGAMUTHU, J] The petitioner is the mother of one Mr.S.Manoj Prabhakar, aged about 18 years, [hereinafter referred to as "the detenu"]. According to her, her son has been missing from 22.03.2011 onwards. In this regard, she made a complaint to the second respondent, upon which a case has been registered in Crime No.211 of 2011, on 09.04.2011, for boy missing and the case is under investigation. Since the boy has not been secured so far, the petitioner has come up with this Habeas Corpus Petition seeking a direction to the respondents 1 and 2 to produce the detenu before this Court and to set him at liberty. 2.The learned Additional Public Prosecutor would submit that the investigation is taken in the right direction and all out efforts have taken to secure the boy and to set him at liberty, if he is kept elsewhere in illegal detention. 3.The learned counsel appearing for the respondents 3 and 4 would submit that they have got no information about the whereabouts of the detenu. The said statements made by both the counsel are recorded. 4.In view of the fact that there is no illegal detention, as it is a simple case of boy missing and since the investigation is taken in the right direction, we are of the view that no further direction, as prayed for by the petitioner in this Habeas Corpus Petition, is required to be issued. 5.In view of the above, this Habeas Corpus Petition is closed with a direction to the second respondent to expedite the investigation and the same shall be monitored by the first respondent. Sd/- Assistant Registrar (AE) / TRUE COPY / Sub Assistant Registrar To:1.The Superintendent of Police, Karur District, Karur. 2.The Inspector of Police,Pasupathipalayam Police Station, Karur District 3.The Addl. Public Prosecutor, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Madurai. +1CC to Mr.B.Saravanan, Advocate. SR.No.45081. RP/09.01.2012/1P/5C.ORDER MADE IN HABEAS CORPUS PETITION(MD).No.501 of 2011. https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/