JUDGMENT

(Prayer:Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a writ of habeas corpus directing the respondents 1 and 2 to produce the petitioner''s daughter XXX, D/o.Selvam, aged about 17 years, before this Court from the illegal custody of the 3rd respondent and handover to the petitioner.)

M. SUNDAR, J

1. This order will now dispose of the captioned ''Habeas Corpus Petition'' [hereinafter ''HCP'' for the sake of brevity, convenience and clarity].

2. The central theme of the captioned HCP is, petitioner''s daughter ''XXX'' [hereinafter ''absentee'' for the sake of convenience and clarity, to be noted, name is masked] is missing from 04.06.2023, a complaint in this regard has been lodged by the petitioner with jurisdictional police (second respondent), the same has been taken on record as Crime No.66 of 2023 on the file of second respondent and the absentee has not been located as yet but captioned HCP has been filed in this Court on 11.07.2023 on the apprehension that absentee may be in illegal custody of third respondent.

3. Issue notice to official respondents.

4. Mr.E.Raj Thilak, learned State Additional Public Prosecutor accepts notice for o