( 1 ) THE petitioner has filed this petition for issue of a writ, order or direction in the nature of habeas corpus commanding the respondents to set her at liberty immediately and a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the respondent No. 2 to produce her before this Court.

( 2 ) IT is alleged by the petitioner that she is the wife of Damodar Das with whom she married in the month of February, 2002 with her own free will and she changed her name as Shanti and started living with her husband. After her marriage with Damodar Das she conceived and is in a family way. The petitioner went to her parental place in the month of May, 2002 where she was beaten and threatened with dire consequences for marrying a Hindu boy. She was asked to severe all her relations with Damodar Das. When she refused to do so, she was assaulted and threatened that her husband would be sent to jail. However, the petitioner escaped from her parental house and reached her in-laws place on 18-8-2002 and after some time she started living at Pilibhit. Thereafter, her father, uncle and brother along with some other relatives came to the house of petitioner and scolded her saying that she had

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