The mother of a 27-year-old youth today filed a habeas corpus petition seeking to produce her son in the court, fearing that he was in the custody of Andhra Pradesh Police who claimed that several hundred persons had been arrested in connection with the red sanders smuggling case and he could be killed.
Justice A Selvam and Justice V S Ravi ordered issue of notice to the Principal Secretaries (Home) of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, the DGPs of the two states and the SP of Tiruchirappalli district in Tamil Nadu on the petition filed by Mohanavalli, a resident of Tiruchirappalli district.
She submitted that her son Raghuvaran went missing in August 2013. One of the persons killed by the Andhra Pradesh police looked like her son. But the police did not allow her to see the body. She lodged a complaint to the District Police Superintendent who advised her to go to Tiruvannamalai where the bodies had been kept.
The police at Tirvannamalai did not allow her to see the bodies saying all the bodies had been identified.
She came to know that several hundreds of Tamils were legally and illegally detained by the Andhra Pradesh Police. This made her apprehensive that her son also had been detained by them, she submitted.
