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Father ends search for missing daughter

Staff Reporter

Withdraws petition on child’s advice

Says, daughter called and said she was safeThe class X student went missing on December 7

NEW DELHI: The lawyer who had filed a habeas corpus petition in the Delhi High Court last week seeking a direction to the Delhi police to trace his teenaged daughter withdrew it on Thursday, saying that his daughter wanted him to do so.

The Court allowed him to withdraw the petition.

Earlier the father submitted that his daughter had called him up and said she was safe and secure and would be back home soon. She had advised him to withdraw the petition saying that it would be in the interest of the family and her, the father submitted.

A Division Bench of the Court comprising Justice Vikramjit Sen and Justice P. K. Bhasin had last week asked the city police to produce the girl before it by January 11. They had also asked them to file a status report about the progress of investigation in the case.

The Court had passed the direction on the habeas corpus petition.

The petitioner had alleged that he had received a ransom call from a criminal of Haryana 10 days after her “abduction.”

The girl, a Class X student of a reputed school in South Delhi, had gone missing on December 7. However, the petitioner submitted that he suspected that his daughter had been abducted.

The petitioner had lodged a kidnapping case with the Sarojini Nagar police immediately after he came to know that his daughter had gone missing.

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