ORDER

This petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India has been filed for a writ requiring production of Dharamvir Singh, a practising Advocate of Amritsar, before this Court. The two petitioners are the mother and cousin of Dharamvir respectively. Their grievance is that even though Dharamvir was on bail in connection with two cases earlier registered against him and was released from Central Jail, Jammu on May 12, 1995 consequent upon quashing of his detention by the High Court of Jammu & Kashmir, he was taken into custody as soon as he came out of the jail by Sudarshan Singh, an officer of Pacca Danga Police Station of Jammu city and since then his whereabouts are not known.

2. Responding to the notice issued on the petition, Mr. Pramod Jain, Special Secretary (Home), Government of Jammu and Kashmir has filed a counter affidavit wherein he has admitted that Dharamvir Singh was released from Central Jail, Jammu on May 12, 1995. In detailing Dharamvir s subsequent movements, Mr. Jain has stated that on May 21, 1995 a Nakka was laid in the area of Kharkhola Post near the Indo-Pak Border under the joint supervision of officials of Border Security Force (BSF) and local P