ARPANA vs STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS

CRWP-8266-2026 (O&M) 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND H ARYANA AT CHANDIGARH (238) CRWP-8266-2026 (O&M) Date of Decision:-17.07.2026 ARPANA … Petitioner Versus STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VIRINDER AGGARWAL Present: Mr. Vaibhav Vats, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Gurpartap Singh, AAG Punjab **** VIRINDER AGGARWAL, J. (Oral) 1. The present petition has been filed under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India seeking a writ in the nature of habeas corpus for release of the detenues, namely Gopaljee Jha and Dheeraj Kumar Jha, who are stated to be husband and son of the petitioner, respectively and they have been forcibly taken away by respondents No.3 and 4. 2. Report of the Warrant Officer has been received, which is taken on record. 3. As per the report, the detenues namely Gopaljee Jha and Dheeraj Kumar Jha were found sitting in the Police Station, Ramgarh by the Warrant Officer. The alleged detenues stated that they had been brought to the police post by the police while they were carrying out constructions work on their plot. The police, however, stated that they had been called to the police post in connection with a complaint reg