IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CRWP-318-2025 Date of Decision: 15.01.2025 NEELESH GUPTA ... Petitioner Versus STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS ... Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJIV BERRY.

Present:- Mr. Gourav Jain, for the petitioner.

Mr. Praveen Bhadu, AAG, Haryana.

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SANJIV BERRY, J. (ORAL)

The instant petition has been preferred by the petitioner under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for issuance of a Writ in the nature of Habeas Corpus praying for release of the detenue ‘Master Gauransh’ minor son of the petitioner from the illegal detention of private respondents No. 5 to 7 and further to issue direction to respondent No.5 to 7 to produce the detenue; further to direct respondent No.4-wife to grant adequate visitation rights to the petitioner to meet his minor son; further to issue any such writ or direction, as deemed fit by this Court.

2. In nutshell, the brief facts of the case are that the marriage of the petitioner was solemnized with respondent No.4 Mansi Modi on 01.02.2017 and out of their wedlock one child namely Master Gauransh was born on 06.05.2018. Due to temperamental difference between parties, Mansi Modi wife of the petitione