Habeas Corpus Not Maintainable When Detention Is Under The Witness Protection Scheme, 2018: MP HC [Read Judgment]

The Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court has held that a petition in the nature of habeas corpus is not maintainable in cases where the detention is made for protection of witnesses, as envisaged under the Witness Protection Scheme, 2018. Thus while dismissing the petition, the bench of Chief Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal and Justice S. C. Sharma held, "merely because,...