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High Court of DelhiW.P.(CRL)/2060/2025

Mukesh Kumar Rana v. The State Of NCT Of Delhi And ORS.

2025-07-15Hon'Ble Mr. Justice Subramonium Prasad,Hon'Ble Mr. Justice Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar2 pages

$~52 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(CRL) 2060/2025 MUKESH KUMAR RANA .....Petitioner Through:

Mr. Akarsh Gupta, Mr. Dhruv Gupta, Mr. R.K. Gupta, Ms.

Aparna Gupta, Advs.

versus THE STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ORS.

.....Respondents Through:

Mr.

Sanjay Lao, Standing Counsel (CRL) with Ms.

Priyam Agarwal & Mr. Aryan Sachdeva, Advs.

Ms. Shilpa Singh, SPP, Dy SP Sanjeev, IO & Mr. Shantanu Singh Chandel, Adv.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SUBRAMONIUM PRASAD HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE HARISH VAIDYANATHAN SHANKAR

O R D E R

% 15.07.2025 1.

The present petition, under Article 226 of the Constitution of India read with Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, is in the nature of habeas corpus seeking a direction to the Respondents/State to trace and produce the missing daughter of the Petitioner, who is stated to have been missing since 23.05.2025. 2.

The Petition states that the Petitioner suspects that his daughter is in the illegal custody of Respondent No. 3- Mr. Mohit Kumar. 3.

The daughter of the Petitioner has been traced and produced The authenticity of the order can be re-verified from Delhi High Court Order Portal by scanning the QR code shown above. The Order is downloaded from the DHC Server on 18/07/2025 at 12:16:10

before the Court.

4.

This Court has interacted with the Petitioner's daughter, who was born on 17.05.2007, and is a major. We have also interacted with Respondent No.3, and it is stated by both the Petitioner's daughter as well as Respondent No.3 that they got married on 23.05.2025 and are happily living together.

5.

This Court has interacted with the Petitioner and his wife as well.

6.

In view of the fact that the daughter of the Petitioner, who is a major, has appeared before this Court and has stated that she is not illegally detained by Respondent No.3, and after satisfying ourselves, this Court is of the opinion that nothing survives in the present habeas corpus petition.

7.

Accordingly, this petition, along with the pending application(s), if any, is disposed of in the aforesaid terms. SUBRAMONIUM PRASAD, J.

HARISH VAIDYANATHAN SHANKAR, J.

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