Disposed¶24
Mitali Choudhury v. State of Odisha
Orissa HCWPCRL/166/2025
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
Habeas corpus; Article 226; minor girl missing from hostel; kidnapping; FIR; police inaction; Child Welfare Committee (CWC); safe home; custody of child given to mother; child rescued and integrated with family; no direction for physical presence; writ petition disposed; High Court of Orissa at Cuttack; WPCRL No.166 of 2025; order dated 23.02.2026; Harish Tandon CJ; M.S. Raman J.
What did the court decide?
Since the child had already been rescued and integrated to the family, no purpose would be subserved by directing the physical presence of the minor child; accordingly the writ petition was disposed of. ¶23