JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to issue a writ of Habeas Corpus to direct the second respondent to secure and produce the petitioner's grandmother namely Sembaye aged about 78years, before this Court from the illegal custody of the 3rd respondent and set her at liberty and pass such or other order as this Court may deem fit and proper.)

S. Vaidyanathan, J. & A.D. Jagadish Chandira, J.

The petitioner has come forward with the present petition seeking to direct the second respondent to secure and produce the petitioner's grandmother aged about 78years, before this Court from the illegal custody of the 3rd respondent.

2. It is the case of the petitioner that his maternal grandmother / detenue, namely, Sembaye has been kidnapped by the 3rd respondent, who is also one of the grandsons of the detenue, for acquiring her assets. A complaint in this regard has been given to the 2nd respondent and after enquiry, it was informed to the petitioner that his grandmother was admitted in an Orphanage Home. It is further case of the petitioner that though he had immediately contacted the Home to bring back his grandmother, there was an evasive reply rece