TARUNA vs STATE THROUGH SHO PS JAHANGIR PURI & ORS.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision:31st October, 2025 W.P.(CRL) 3548/2025 & CRL.M.A. 32107/2025 TARUNA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Dinesh Malik (DHCLSC) with Mr. Puneet Jain and Ms. Kiffi Aggarwal, Advocates. versus STATE THROUGH SHO PS JAHANGIR PURI & ORS. .....Respondent Through: Mr. Sanjay Lao, SC with Insp. Somil Sharma. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIVEK CHAUDHARY HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MANOJ JAIN JUDGMENT 1. Present petition has been filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India read with Section 528 B.N.S.S., 2023 and petitioner, inter alia, seeks directions in the nature of Habeas Corpus to the respondents to produce the missing son of petitioner who has been taken away by respondents no. 4 and 5 in the year 2021. 2. The brief facts of the case are that on the on 16.08.2021 and 17.08.2021, respondent Nos. 4 and 5 visited the petitioner unannounced and gave her spiked sweets, took her signatures on a blank piece of paper under false pretenses. Thus, as per her case, respondents no. 4 and 5 took away her son in 2021, renamed him, and falsely claimed adoption on the strength of her signatures taken on blank paper. 3. The incident is of the year 2021 an