LINGARAJA RATH, J.

( 1 ) THIS case was initiated on the basis of a telegram sent by the petitioner alleging that one Sammireddy A. Srikanth, kidnapped by the police, is still in the police custody. On the same day the petitioner sent a letter to the Hon ble the Chief Justice alleging that in the last week of May police announced mr. Sammireddy (A) Rama Kanth and his wife, Smt. Niranjana to have expired in police encounter, but that a drama had been played inasmuch as another person had died in the encounter but not Sammireddy and that fact appeared in Vaartha, a Telugu Daily news paper, on 31-7-1996. The telegram was treated as a petition for Habeas Corpus and on notice being issued, counter affidavit was filed denying the fact mat the alleged detenu Sammireddy had not died in the encounter. It was stated that Sammireddy alias A. Srikanth, alias Ramakanth alias Ashok was originally a coal cutter in the Singareni Collieries. Subsequently he joined as the member of the Singareni Karmika Samakya (SIKASA), an organisation affiliated to C. P J, (ML) Peoples War Group, which is now banned by the Government. He was involved in a number of murders, hurts, arsons, extortion, criminal intimi

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