Minati Mahalik@Jena v. State of Odisha
Case brief
What is this about?
Short disposal record, useful mainly for tracing outcome: writ petition WPCRL No.95 of 2024 (Orissa High Court, Cuttack), order dated 20.11.2024, disposed by two-judge Bench (Arindam Sinha and M.S. Sahoo, JJ.) after the Additional Government Advocate's instruction showed the girl at the centre of a police 'kidnapping' complaint had in fact run away to her uncle's place, reportedly to escape her parents' plan to get her married off, and denied on her own account that she was kidnapped; Court closed the file. Search terms: kidnapping complaint; ran away to uncle's place; parents' intention to get her married off; girl surfaced; file closed; writ petition disposed. Contains no statutory references and engages no cited precedent.
What did the court decide?
According to the girl herself, she was not kidnapped. ¶27