HC notice to Rahul over girl's detention

Petition alleges that Cong leader has been holding girl and her parents in illegal custody since 2007

PTI | March 2, 2011



The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court issued a notice to AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday on a petition alleging that a girl and her parents have been detained by him since 2007.

Justice Shri Narayan Shukla passed the order, seeking Gandhi's reply, on a habeas corpus petition filed by Kishore Samrite, a former Samajwadi Party MLA from Madhya Pradesh, on behalf of Sukanya Devi, her father Balram Singh and mother Sumitra Devi.

The petition alleged that the petitioners -- Sukanya Devi and her parents -- were in illegal detention of Rahul Gandhi since January 4, 2007.

It has sought direction to command the Congress leader to produce the girl and her parents before the court and set them at liberty.

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