The Kerala High Court has dismissed a habeas corpus petition filed by a 62-year-old Chennai resident seeking to trace his ‘wife’, whom he alleged was being detained by a few people for monetary gain.
The petition was dismissed on Monday (August 4, 2025) by a Bench of Justices Devan Ramachandran and M.B. Snehalatha after the 44-year-old woman named in the petition appeared before the court and stated that she was neither under detention nor in any danger. She further clarified that she had not married the petitioner, a retired engineer from the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, and that she did not wish to have any relationship with him. The two had been ‘friends’ in the past.
