K. Abraham Mathew, J.

The first petitioner is the mother-in-law of the second petitioner. The wife of the latter is aged 24. He is employed at Thiruvananthapuram. About 1= months ago his wife started working with a private firm in Thiruvananthapuram. At 1 in the afternoon on 19.9.2016 he dropped her at K.S.R.T.C bus stand at Thiruvananthapuram, from where she left in a bus for Pala. Thereafter, she was missing. On the same day at 10.30 in the night he informed the 4th respondent, Sub Inspector of Police, about it. But the latter sent back the former with a direction to meet him again the next morning. On the next day by about noon the 4th respondent recorded the second petitioner's statement and registered a case. On 21.9.2016 the police got information that the 5th respondent had abducted the second petitioner's wife. On the next day, the police informed him that they had got information about the whereabouts of his wife and instructed him to be available at Thiruvananthapuram. On 23.9.2016 the 4th respondent asked him not to go to the Police Station unless he was summoned. On 23.9.2016 by 12 noon when the petitioner met the 4th respondent at the Police Station, the latte