CEC Protest: MP High Court Disposes Habeas Corpus Pleas After Police Return Detainees To Families

The Madhya Pradesh High Court has disposed of three habeas corpus petitions of people who were detained by the police at Itarsi Junction while travelling in a train from Pune to Delhi to participate in the CJP protests against the Chief Election Commissioner. 

The counsel for the State informed the court that all detainees were returned to their families and that nothing survives in the petitions. 

Accordingly, the division bench of Chief Justice Alpesh Y Kogje and Justice Vivek Jain disposed of the petitions, observing that the detainees were "returned to their families". 

However, counsel for one of the petitioners has claimed that the detenue had "some injuries" on their body and seek to pursue the issue. 

However, the Court observed that the said issue cannot be adjudicated upon in a habeas corpus petition, and granted liberty to the said petitioner to file an appropriate petition. 

In the last hearing, the bench had directed the State to produce the said detainees in court and also directed the State to make arrangements for the safe return of the said detainees to their families.