Smt. Shahana Detainu and Another v. State of U.P. and 5 Others
Habeas Corpus Writ Petition – maintainability
Case brief
What is this about?
Allahabad High Court (coram: Vivek Kumar Birla, J. and Nand Prabha Shukla, J.; neutral citation 2025:AHC:9432-DB; order dated 21.1.2025) dismissed Habeas Corpus Writ Petition No. 40 of 2025 (Smt. Shahana Detainu and another v. State of U.P. and 5 others) as not maintainable. The petition challenged an order dated 28.6.2024 of the Child Welfare Committee directing that petitioner no. 1 be kept at Government Children Home (Girls), Swaroop Nagar, Kanpur Nagar (Unit1). Following the Full Bench ruling in Km. Rachna v. State of U.P., 2021 (3) ADJ 415 (FB), the Court held the petition not maintainable. No costs or amounts awarded; no statute provisions discussed.
What did the court decide?
On a pointed query regarding maintainability, learned counsel for the petitioner could not satisfy the Court. ¶9