ORDER

08.03.2017 None appears on behalf of the petitioner when the matter is called though this case was filed 18 years back.

Heard Mr. L. Samantaray learned Standing Counsel for the State.

In this writ application the petitioner has prayed for issuance of a writ of habeas corpus for causing production of her husband in Court. She has also prayed for payment of compensation to her for mental agony and suffering. Direction for grant of all back wages and service benefits of her husband after quashing the order of dismissal is her last prayer.

As per the averments made in the writ petition husband of the petitioner is stated to be missing since 23.4.1980 from the campus of Orissa Special Armed Police 7th Battalion Bhubaneswar while working as Assistant Sub-Inspector (W.T.) and ultimately he was dismissed from services with effect from 2.8.1983 on the basis of an ex-parte Departmental Proceeding initiated on the charge of desertion. It is further case of the petitioner that though her husband was found to be missing since 23.4.1980 however at no point of time his family members were intimated about such missing. Further on account of dismissal order passed against the husband of t