HI GH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAI NI TAL HON’BLE THE CHI EF JUSTI CE MR. MANOJ KUMAR GUPTA AND HON’BLE SRI JUSTI CE ASHI SH NAI THANI

16^TH JANUARY, 2026 WRI T PETI TI ON ( CRL) NO. 139 OF 2026 Soni Rana …...Petitioner.

Versus State of Uttarakhand & others ….Respondents. Counsel for the Petitioner : Ms. Geetanjali Dhami, learned counsel.

Counsel for the State : Mr. J.S. Virk, learned Deputy Advocate General with Mr. R.K. Joshi, learned Brief Holder.

JUDGMENT :(per Mr. Manoj Kumar Gupta, C.J.)

The petitioner is seeking a writ of mandamus directing respondent nos.2 to 4 to provide immediate and effective police protection to the petitioner and her minor son; to direct the police authorities to ensure the petitioner’s peaceful entry and residence in her matrimonial/ shared household; direct the respondent- police authorities to restore the petitioner’s possession over her matrimonial/ shared household, from which, she has been forcibly dispossessed, and; to ensure that the minor son of the petitioner is not harmed by respondent nos.5 to

9.

2. The petitioner claims herself to be the widow of Late Vijendra Singh Rana. Her case is that after the death of her husband on 01.09.2021, she was thrown