The Madurai Bench of the Madras high Court today directed the Tuticorn Police to produce authenticated document to show whether the detenu sought to be produced in a Habeas Corpus Petition had been actually murdered.
A bench comprising Justice A.Selvam and Justice V S Ravi directed the Police to produce the authenticated document without merely informing the court that the detenu had been murdered by his father-in-law and he had also given a confessional statement to that effect.
The Petitioner S.Selvi of Palanganatham in Madurai submitted that her brother had Sriram married Sonia, daughter of V.Eesakkimuthu of Srivaikuntam in Tuticorin district.
Selvi alleged that Eesakkimuthu who was against the marriage managed to locate the couple and forcibly took Sonia with him. Sriram filed a HCP in the court but was threatened to withdraw it.
Sriram on being persuaded by Essakkimuthu went to Srivaikuntam on October 8, 2013. Nothing could be heard from him since then and his mobile phone had also been switched off.
Selvi filed a complaint with the Tuticorin SP and Srivaikuntam Inspector to save her brother. She was told by her relatives and friends that her brother was under illegal detention of Eesakkimuthu and that he was trying to remarry his daughter off to some other person.
As the police did not take any steps to protect her brother she filed the HCP to produce him in person.
