The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice on a Habeas Corpus petition filed by a woman whose husband has been missing since 2015 from Malaysia, where he was working.
The petition was filed by one Raj Kumari through Advocate Anuj Bhandari who alleged that no action was taken on her representations to the Prime Minister’s Office and the External Affairs Ministry.
As per the plea, the petitioner’s husband was sent to Malaysia for a job in October 2014 on the promise of a monthly salary of Rs 45,000 by one Narendra Kumar Pachori, who had taken money from the petitioner’s husband Vijay Singh on the pretext of getting him lucrative jobs abroad.
In Malaysia, the husband and his brother-in-law started receiving threatening messages asking for payment of Rs 4 lakh to a bank account provided.
According to the plea, the husband and three others were kidnapped by five Indian men in 2015 and locked in a room. One of them managed to escape and filed a police complaint at Manjung district in Malaysia.
The petitioner then filed a police complaint with the local police in Rajasthan in 2016 for kidnapping and cheating, but there has been no progress till date. She then approached the High Court, which dismissed and therefore she filed an appeal before the Apex Court.
While considering the petition, the Bench of Justices U.U. Lalit, S. Ravindra Bhat and Bela M. Trivedi sought a response from the High Commissioner and the State of Rajasthan.