Gokulakrishnan, J.

1. This writ petition is for issue of a writ of habeas carpus, directing the respondents to produce the child, Harihara Sudhan, before this Honourable Court and to deliver him to the petitioner and set him at liberty. The petitioner has alleged in the affidavit in support of this petition that she got married to the first respondent on 3rd September, 1976. The second respondent is her mother-in-law. A male child was born on 20th May, 1979, and its name is Harihara Sudhan. The petitioner has further alleged that the first respondent herein, under the instigation of the second respondent and his sister, meted out cruel treatment to the petitioner and that the first respondent abused her stating that she has not brought enough dowry from her parents. The petitioner has further alleged that, subsequent to the birth of the child, Harihara Sudhan, the first respondent inflicted both physical and mental agony on the petitioner, that the respondents removed the child, who aged about eleven mouths at the time, forcibly from the petitioner on 27th April, 1980, that the petitioner was beaten severely by the first respondent and that the first respondent sent the child t