Sanjay Karol, J.

On the basis of a Letter Petition dated 30.10.2017, so addressed by Krishni Devi, resident of village Uvah, P.O. Sianji, Tehsil Sundernagar, District Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, this Court, taking suo moto cognizance, issued notice.

2. Letter petitioner alleged that on 15.10.2017 at about 8.40 a.m., her son Gopal Sharma @ Vicky received a phone call and after informing that he would return in ten minutes, left on his motorcycle towards Mahadev (District Mandi). Since her son did not return and his whereabouts were not known, she went to Police Station, BSL Colony (Sundernagar) to lodge missing report. There, police advised her to wait for two days, suggesting that perhaps he would come back. On 20.10.2017, again she went to lodge the report, when again they asked her to wait and search for him. Again on 23.10.2017, when she went to the Police Station, she was informed that location of the person, on whose call her son had left, was traced to a place somewhere near Manali (District Kullu) and when an endeavour was made to search such person, the mobile phone was found to be switched off. On 26.10.2017, she arranged money and went towards Manali to trace her son