{"id":7251,"date":"2007-06-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/thomas-vs-kaviraj-on-8-june-2007"},"modified":"2014-06-20T02:50:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T21:20:31","slug":"thomas-vs-kaviraj-on-8-june-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/thomas-vs-kaviraj-on-8-june-2007","title":{"rendered":"Thomas vs Kaviraj on 8 June, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Kerala High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Thomas vs Kaviraj on 8 June, 2007<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n  IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM\n\nWP(Crl) No. 130 of 2007(S)\n\n\n1. THOMAS, AGED 54 YEARS,\n                      ...  Petitioner\n\n                        Vs\n\n\n\n1. KAVIRAJ, AGED 28 YEARS,\n                       ...       Respondent\n\n2. CHANDRIKA, WIFE OF VIJAYAN,\n\n3. STATION HOUSE OFFICER,\n\n4. DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE,\n\n                For Petitioner  :SRI.V.L.SHENOY\n\n                For Respondent  :SRI.N.NAGARESH\n\nThe Hon'ble MR. Justice P.R.RAMAN\nThe Hon'ble MRS. Justice K.HEMA\n\n Dated :08\/06\/2007\n\n O R D E R\n                          P.R.RAMAN &amp; K.HEMA, JJ.\n\n                   --------------------------------\n\n                           W.P.(Crl).NO.130 OF 2007\n\n                  ---------------------------------\n\n                Dated this the 8th day of June,2007\n\n\n\n                                           JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n<p>Raman,J.\n<\/p>\n<p>        Petitioner   is   the   father   of   Lisie   Thomas,   who   is   aged   20   years.\n<\/p>\n<p>Petitioner was an employee of a Company at Cherthala. It is alleged that  his<\/p>\n<p>daughter is illegally detained by respondents 1 and 2.  Though it is alleged<\/p>\n<p>that   the   alleged   detenu   is   seriously   suffering   from   mental   depression,   no<\/p>\n<p>materials are produced in support thereof.  However, since it is alleged that<\/p>\n<p>the   girl   is   in   the   illegal   custody   of   respondents   1   and   2,   a   direction   was<\/p>\n<p>issued   by   this   Court   to   produce   the   girl.   Girl   appeared   before   us.\n<\/p>\n<p>Respondents  1  and  2  also  appeared.    We inter  acted  with  the  girl  and  we<\/p>\n<p>understand that she is not in the illegal custody and is a free person. She is<\/p>\n<p>also   in   an   advance   stage   of   pregnancy.     We   are   also   told     that   she   is<\/p>\n<p>regularly   taken   for     medical   check-up   every   month   by   her   mother-in-law,<\/p>\n<p>who   is   stated   to   be   working   in   the   Government   Hospital.     Though   the<\/p>\n<p>petitioner   would   submit   that   he   wanted   to   take   his   daughter   for   delivery,<\/p>\n<p>that is not a matter within the purview of a habeas corpus writ jurisdiction.\n<\/p>\n<p>So long as the petitioner&#8217;s daughter is not in the illegal custody of anybody<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                                     -2-<\/span><\/p>\n<p>W.P.(Crl).NO.130\/2007<\/p>\n<p>and is a free person capable of taking decision, we close this matter, as no<\/p>\n<p>further proceedings are necessary and the girl is set free.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                               P.R.RAMAN,<\/p>\n<p>                                              Judge.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                                                 K.HEMA,<\/p>\n<p>                                                                 Judge.\n<\/p>\n<p>kcv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerala High Court Thomas vs Kaviraj on 8 June, 2007 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM WP(Crl) No. 130 of 2007(S) 1. THOMAS, AGED 54 YEARS, &#8230; Petitioner Vs 1. KAVIRAJ, AGED 28 YEARS, &#8230; Respondent 2. CHANDRIKA, WIFE OF VIJAYAN, 3. STATION HOUSE OFFICER, 4. DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, For Petitioner :SRI.V.L.SHENOY [&hellip;]<\/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":[8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-kerala-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Thomas vs Kaviraj on 8 June, 2007 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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\/thomas-vs-kaviraj-on-8-june-2007\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Thomas vs Kaviraj on 8 June, 2007 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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