THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE A. GOPAL REDDY AND THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE P. SWAROOP REDDY WRIT PETITION NO.16952 and 17132 OF 2007 Date: 13.9.2007 W.P.NO.16952 of 2007 Between: Reddy Appala Naidu … Petitioner. And The Sub-Inspector of Police, Railway Police Station, Warangal, Warangal District and another …. Respondents. And W.P.No.17132 of 2007 T. Tirumala Rao. … Petitioner And The Sub-Inspector of Police, Railway Police Station, Warangal, Warangal District and another … Respondents. ORAL ORDER: (per A. Gopal Reddy, J) Both the Writ Petitions can be disposed of together by a common order as they arise out of the same cause of action. The fax message dated 5.8.2007 sent by one Sri R. Appala Naidu, Vijayawada alleging that one person by name Suresh was kept under illegal detention in Railway Police Station, Warangal with hand cups and chains to legs by the Sub-Inspector of Police and his team of constables, that the police also kept 1. Rama Rao, 2. Jyotheswara Rao and 3. Satish under illegal detention and they were not produced before the Court of law, was taken up as a writ of habeas Corpus in W.P.No.16952 of 2007. Another fax message sent by one T. Tirumala Rao, Vijayawada alleging that his friend G. Rama Rao was illegally detained by the Sub-Inspector of Railway Police, Warangal, was also taken up as a writ of habeas corpus in W.P.No.17132 of 2007. In both the writ petitions notices were issued to the respondents. When the matters are taken up on 6.9.2007, the same were adjourned to this day for production of the alleged detenus. Today, the alleged detenus were produced before the Court by the Inspector of Police along with the petitioner in W.P.No.16952 of 2007. When we examined the alleged detenus, they stated that the police took them into custody on suspicion of committing theft and taken them to Warrangal and interrogated them and later they were released in the evening on the same day. They also stated that they were not subjected to any third degree methods and they were only made to sit in the police station from morning to evening during the course of the investigation. In view of the categorical statement made by the alleged detenus that they were not kept under illegal detention by the police and they were sent away in the evening on the same day, no further orders need to be passed in the writ petitions, which are accordingly dismissed. __________________ A. GOPAL REDDY, J ___________________ 13th September, 2007 P. SWAROOP REDDY, J vtv