2025:UHC:4487-DB IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL HON’BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE SRI G. NARENDAR AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE ALOK MAHRA Habeas Corpus Petition No. 17 OF 2025 5th June, 2025 Tej Prakash Bhatt …… Petitioner Versus State of Uttarakhand and and Others …… Respondents Presence:- Ms. Manisha Bhandari and Mr. Rahul Consul, learned counsel for the petitioner. Mr. J.S. Virk, learned Deputy Advocate General for the State. Mr. Aditya Singh, learned counsel for the corpus. --------------------------------------------------------------------- JUDGMENT: (per Hon’ble The Chief Justice Sri G. Narendar) We have heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel Mr. Aditya Singh for the corpus and the corpus, who has also appeared online. 2. The corpus categorically denies the assertions of the petitioner that she was ever married to him. She would submit that the petitioner is not known to her and that she had married a doctor in 2013 in Delhi and, thereafter, the marriage having failed, she is now living with one 1 2025:UHC:4487-DB Rohit Giri said to be Mahant of Maa Chandi Devi Temple, Haridwar. 3. The corpus is a major and she has expressed in no uncertain terms her unwillingness to accompany the petitioner for the reasons recorded above. Whether the reasons given by the corpus are correct or not, cannot be subject-matter of the habeas corpus proceedings. If the petitioner is still of the opinion that she is his lawfully wedded wife, then, it is open for the petitioner to seek remedy before the appropriate forum. 4. In view of the above facts and circumstances, the habeas corpus petition, in our opinion, does not warrant any further orders and is accordingly disposed of. ________________ G. NARENDAR, C.J. ____________ ALOK MAHRA, J. Dt: 5th June, 2025 Ujjwal 2