INDERJIT KAUR Vs. CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioner is the wife of one Avtar Singh who as per the averments in the petition was taken away by a police party at 6.00 a.m. on 7th March, 1992. On 13th March, 1992, the petitioner received an inland letter purported to have been posted from Kot Shamir, District Bathinda, in which it had been conveyed that Avtar Singh had been brought to the CIA Staff Bathinda. The petitioner has averred that when enquiries were made from Bathinda she was informed verbally by some constables that Avtar Singh had in fact been brought there but after a stay of 4 or 5 days had been shifted elsewhere.

(2.) IT has also been averred by the petitioner that despite strenuous and repeated efforts, no action was taken and the whereabouts of Avtar Singh were still unknown. When the matter was agitated at the highest level and even debated in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha on 6th April, 1992, FIR No. 43 Police Station Mohali was recorded on 30th April, 1992. As the petitioner remained unaware of the nature of the investigation being made by the police she has filed the present petition for habeas corpus in this Court.