Saturday, May 24, 2008

Court admits habeas corpus petition

By S A Ishaqui
Hyderabad, May 23 : The AP High Court admitted a habeas corpus petition filed by a woman seeking rescue of her seven-year-old girl from her in-laws.
Ms Syeeda Shama, a 24-year-old divorcee of Falakhnama, filed a petition alleging that her daughter was not being taken care of properly by her in-laws and that the girl was being kept captive in a room. She submitted to the court that after given divorce to her husband Mohammed Sabirs, her in-laws necked her out forcibly detained her elder daughter.
According to the petitioner she married Sabir in July 2000 and it went good for a year and later her husband and in-laws started harassing for more dowry.
She told the court that she lodged a complaint in the local police station but their father-in-law and brother-in-law did not allowed her to take the girl along with her.
She informed the court that she went to the house of respondents on May 10 , but they have not allowed her to take the daughter and they locked her daughter in a room. While admitting the petition the he court issues notices to the city police and the in-laws of the woman.
The case was posted to June 10.

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