Perikala Venkaiah v. The State of Andhra Pradesh
Case brief
What is this about?
Writ Petition No. 14784/2026, High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati, decided 14.07.2026. Perikala Venkaiah filed a habeas corpus petition under Article 226 seeking production and release of the detenue Perikala Deepak Raj from alleged wrongful confinement by Respondents 2 to 5 (Guntur police officials); IA No. 1 of 2026 under Section 151 CPC sought interim release. Counsel K.V. Aditya Chowdary submitted the detenue had been granted bail, making the petition infructuous. Dismissed as infructuous; miscellaneous petitions closed; no order as to costs. Per Ravi Nath Tilhari, J, with Purushottam Kumar Chintalapudi, J. Keywords: habeas corpus, wrongful confinement, detenue granted bail, infructuous writ petition, Guntur, Article 226, Section 151 CPC.
What did the court decide?
Recording the submission that the detenue had been granted bail, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous, with no order as to costs.