Judgment

30/07/2021 Reportable The petitioner Urmila Devi has approached this Court by way of this habeas corpus petition alleging inter alia that her husband Shri Prem Ratan aged about 72 years went missing on 04.09.2019 and since then, he has been untraceable. She has prayed for a direction to the respondent police authorities to trace out and produce the corpus in this Court. Various allegations have been levelled by the petitioner in the writ petition against her brother- in-law (respondent No.4) and sister-in-law (respondent No.5) that they are having an evil eye on the property of her husband in Delhi and that they are responsible for the disappearance of Shri Prem Ratan, who might have been murdered.

It is an admitted case that Shri Prem Ratan left his home at Rajaldesar, District Churu on 04.09.2019 at about 10 o’ clock in the morning and thereafter, he disappeared. The petitioner’s son Shri Gopal Krishan lodged a missing person report (No.04/2019) at the Police Station Rajaldesar on 10.09.2019, wherein, no allegations were made about any foul play in the disappearance of Shri Prem Ratan. For the first time on 22.09.2019, the petitioner forwarded a complaint to the Superinte