Court No. - 51

Case :- HABEAS CORPUS WRIT PETITION No. - 3967 of 2018

Petitioner :- Priyanka Pandey

Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others

Counsel for Petitioner :- Dinesh Kumar Misra

Counsel for Respondent :- G.A.

Hon'ble Vipin Sinha,J.

Hon'ble Ghandikota Sri Devi,J.

In pursuant to the order dated 12.12.2018, the corpus, Priyanka

Pandey has been produced before this Court in the custody of

Head Constable Ashok Kumar Yadav (972765290), Woman

Constable Gunja Viswakarma (152760438). Sri Rajesh Mishra,

learned AGA also filed a short counter affidavit annexing

thereto a copy of the statement of the girl under Section 161

Cr.P.C. as well as the certificate issued by Chief Medical

Officer, Varansi which shows the age of the girl is 19 to 20

years. We have also perused the statement of the girl, a copy of

which has been annexed as Annexure No. 1 to the writ petition.

The present Habeas Corpus Writ Petition has been filed on

behalf of the corpus, Priyanka Pandey, through her grand father

Pramod Pandey.

Since the Court has been informed that girl is present before

this Court, the Court proceeds to examine the corpus:

On being asked aapka nam kya hai, she informs the