Smt. Santo v. State & ORS.

$~51 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(CRL) 3529/2018 SMT. SANTO ..... Petitioner Through:

Mr. Sunil Satyarthi, Ms. Amita Saxena, Ms. Harsha Sharma, Mr. Anad Kumar Dubey and Mr. Ravneet Singh, Advocates with Petitioner in person.

Versus

STATE & ORS.

..... Respondents Through:

Mr. Ashish Aggarwal, Additional Standing Counsel for State with Mr. Piyush Singhal, Advocate and SI Vikash P.S. Khyala.

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAJMI WAZIRI

O R D E R

% 19.11.2018 Crl. M.A. No.47558/2018 (for exemption) Allowed, subject to all just exceptions.

The application stands disposed-off.

W.P.(CRL) 3529/2018 At the outset, the learned counsel for the petitioner does not press for prayers (b) and (c) seeking to pursue her remedies before the appropriate Court.

In the circumstance, liberty to do so granted. The petitioner otherwise seeks protection from respondents No. 3 to 7, who, according to her, have been allegedly harassing and otherwise being ill-treating her apropos the petitioner's having registered Will in favour of

her three daughters. She claims to be the owner of property No. L-92, 1st Floor Raghubir Nagar, Delhi-110027.

In the circumstances, the petitioner shall be provided due protection by the Station House Officer (SHO) of the area of her residence in Delhi. She will be interacted with and will be provided three telephone numbers of police officers including one of the lady police officer. These numbers shall be kept operational at all times so that any exigency can be intimated on either of the numbers by the petitioner. The Court is assured by the learned counsel for the State that any message received on the said numbers or on any other telephone number of the police either by way of a telephone call or SMS shall be immediately responded to. Additionally, the Beat Constable/Division Staff of the area shall regularly visit the residence of the petitioner on a daily basis and report the same in the Roznamcha. The safety and security of the petitioner shall be assessed by the SHO on a weekly basis with due endorsement of the same in the Roznamcha. The Beat Constable shall record entries in his Beat Book.

The learned counsel for the State submits that the SHO concerned shall duly sensitize respondents No. 3 to 7 about the petitioner's right to live a life according to her choice and nobody has a right to interfere in the same. He also assures the Court that the police officer present in the Court will interact with the petitioner in the Court itself and he and the SHO concerned shall assure her of her safety.

Should the petitioner shifts her address to the jurisdiction of any other Police Station in Delhi, the same protection shall be granted to them by the SHO of the subsequent Police Station as well. No further orders are required.

The petition stands disposed-off in terms of the above. NAJMI WAZIRI, J.

NOVEMBER 19, 2018 sb