{"id":258557,"date":"2010-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/smt-v-m-sumitra-vs-the-state-of-karnataka-on-30-november-2010"},"modified":"2014-11-18T10:57:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T05:27:29","slug":"smt-v-m-sumitra-vs-the-state-of-karnataka-on-30-november-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/smt-v-m-sumitra-vs-the-state-of-karnataka-on-30-november-2010","title":{"rendered":"Smt V M Sumitra vs The State Of Karnataka on 30 November, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
Karnataka High Court<\/div>\n
Smt V M Sumitra vs The State Of Karnataka on 30 November, 2010<\/div>\n
Author: N.Kumar And Nagaraj<\/div>\n

IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BANGALORE<\/p>\n

DATED THIS THE 30′?” DAY OF NOVEMBER, <\/p>\n

PRESENT<\/p>\n

THE HON’BLE MR. JUsT1eI–:.N <\/p>\n

AND
\nTHE HON’BLE MR. JUSr1CE
\nWPNo.21;\/~2o’:0″u:1c) A’<\/p>\n

BETWEEN
\nSmt.VMSumiiira’;. < I
\nW\/o.Manjunath;\u00a7"' , "\n<\/p>\n

Aged about ‘
\nOec:Ho_1,1seho11i,’.;__ e —<\/p>\n

R\/ o . K.ood’as1Cidanfapaiy, <\/p>\n

Tavarekere Ho1:~h1_,_ _ _’<\/p>\n

Banga1ore._SoL1th .’FaIu1u<:eA.. ,\u00bb ' A' . . Petitloner<\/p>\n

(By Sri o'Ai{;"mn1\u00a7u1ungr Nfadhav, Advs.]
\n A A<\/p>\n

':1;If1e:"State ofkarnataka.<\/p>\n

_ _ 'Represented by Secretary,
\nA 'H6;:1ev13e'partment,<\/p>\n

V_i.d}1'a:ia Soudha,<\/p>\n

Bar1ga1ore–56O 001.\n<\/p>\n

, -. ‘The Director General and<\/p>\n

” Inspector General. of Police,
\nNrupathunga Road,
\nBangalore.\n<\/p>\n

\n

3. The Police Commissioner,
\nBangalore City, Infantry Road.<\/p>\n

Bangalore.\n<\/p>\n

4. Station House Officer,
\nCentral Crime Branch,<\/p>\n

Mysore Road.\n<\/p>\n

Bangalore. ‘ <\/p>\n

[By Sri H S Chandrarnouli, SP\ufb02P.] <\/p>\n

This WPHC is filed under_llArticle’s-.2’2C’ Q2? of V<\/p>\n

the Constitution of India, v.prayin”g~-.p_to issue Writ of
\nhabeas corpus for –prodt;i_ctipri ‘\u00ab.._of”‘the body of the
\npetitioner’s husband Sri.Manjnx1ath._in “court and he be
\nset at l1bertY- ‘ \u00bb <\/p>\n

This this day. KUMAR
\nJ passed the ‘ \u00bb<\/p>\n

iiii <\/p>\n

‘This: seeking a direction to the<\/p>\n

police Anthorities toproduce the petitioner’s husband,<\/p>\n

Srij }Ma.njur1ath”in…Court and he be set at liberty. After<\/p>\n

have entered appearance and \ufb01led a<\/p>\n

ldetai1ed,l’clo:;rnter affidavit setting out the fact that the<\/p>\n

detenne is involved in nine criminal cases. He has been<\/p>\n

‘arrested and produced before the jurisdictional<\/p>\n

_.:\u00a7Magistrate on 29.11.2010 and remanded him to police<\/p>\n

5\/.\n<\/p>\n

\n

custody. Therefore, he is not in illegal detention. here<\/p>\n

is no merit in this petition. Accordingly, it is dis.mis:’s=,e(l.._<\/p>\n

” JUDGE
\nBkm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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JUSr1CE WPNo.21;\/~2o’:0″u:1c) A’ BETWEEN Smt.VMSumiiira’;. < I W\/o.Manjunath;\u00a7"' , " Aged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-karnataka-high-court"],"yoast_head":"\nSmt V M Sumitra vs The State Of Karnataka on 30 November, 2010 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court & High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/smt-v-m-sumitra-vs-the-state-of-karnataka-on-30-november-2010\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Smt V M Sumitra vs The State Of Karnataka on 30 November, 2010 - 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