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2025 DAILYLAW 116064 (MAD)

Antonyammal v. The State of Tamilnadu

HCP(MD)/69/2025 · 2025-01-21

G R Swaminathan, R Poornima

Transfer Petitionbody2025

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H.C.P.(MD)No.69 of 2025 BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT DATED : 21.01.2025 CORAM THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE G.R.SWAMINATHAN and THE HONOURABLE MS.JUSTICE R.POORNIMA H.C.P.(MD)No.69 of 2025 Antonyammal ... Petitioner / Mother of the Detenue Vs. 1.The Superintendent of Police, Tirunelveli District, Tirunelveli. 2.The Inspector of Police, Uvari Police Station, Tirunelveli District. (In Crime No.212/2024) ... Respondents PRAYER : Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for the issue of a Writ of Habeas Corpus, to direct the respondents 1 & 2 to produce the body or the person that the detenue named Agvin, D/o.Viniston aged about 21 years before this Court and set her at liberty. For Petitioner : Mr.S.Ramasamy For Respondents : Mr.E.Antony Sahaya Prabahar Additional Public Prosecutor. For R1 & R2 1/4 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis H.C.P.(MD)No.69 of 2025 O R D E R (Order of the court was delivered by G.R.Swaminathan, J.) Heard both sides. 2. The petitioner is the mother of the detenue. The petitioner complains that her daughter is missing. Her complaint was registered in Crime No.212 of 2024 by the second respondent. Since the daughter has not yet been traced, the present habeas corpus petition came to be filed. 3. When the matter was taken up for hearing, the learned Additional Public Prosecutor submitted that the petitioner's daughter originally eloped with one Bihari. Later, she was brought back and she was given in marriage to a local villager. The said person also appears to have left her. The petitioner's daughter is said to be in Bangalore and is living with one Suresh. 4.We are satisfied that this is not a case of illegal detention. Be that as it may, we direct the second respondent to expedite his efforts to trace the missing girl. 2/4 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis H.C.P.(MD)No.69 of 2025 5. With the aforesaid direction to the second respondent, the habeas corpus petition is disposed of. (G.R.S. J.,) & (R.P. J.,) 21.01.2025 NCC : Yes/No Index : Yes / No Internet : Yes/ No rmi To:- 1.The Superintendent of Police, Tirunelveli District, Tirunelveli. 2.The Inspector of Police, Uvari Police Station, Tirunelveli District. 3.The Additional Public Prosecutor, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Madurai. 3/4 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis H.C.P.(MD)No.69 of 2025 G.R.SWAMINATHAN, J. and R.POORNIMA, J. rmi H.C.P.(MD)No.69 of 2025 21.01.2025 4/4 https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis