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IN THE COURT OF SPECIAL METROPOLITAN MAGISTRATE
54TH COURT, AT MAZGAON, MUMBAI
CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO OF 2012
IN
RA NO 31/2012 IN LAC NO 12/2012
URVASHI DHARMENDRA THAKUR
Aged about 22 years, having address
K-3/92/93, Sainik Enclave,
Mohan Garden, Uttam Nagar,
New Delhi
The Victim No 8 in RA/31/2012
Of Kala Chowki Police
Station dated 10/02/2012 ) …… Applicant
VERSUS
STATE OF MAHARASHTRA ) …. Respondent
Through Kala Chowki Police Station
INDEX
Sr. No. Particulars Page Nos.
1 Synopsis 3 to 3
2 The Application 4 to 11
3 Verification 12 to 12
4 Vakalatnama 13 to 14
5 Exhibit “A” Copy of R.A 15 to 20
6 Exhibit “B” Copy of Order dated 02/03/2012. 21 to 27
7 Exhibit “C” (colly) 28 to 32
8 Affidavit in Support 33 to 35
IN THE COURT OF SPECIAL METROPOLITAN MAGISTRATE
54TH COURT, AT MAZGAON, MUMBAI
CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO OF 2012
IN
RA NO 31/2012 IN LAC NO 12/2012
URVASHI DHARMENDRA THAKUR …… Applicant
VERSUS
STATE OF MAHARASHTRA …. Respondent
Through Kala Chowki Police Station
SYNOPSIS
09-02-2012 raid was conducted at New Canara Bar, Sewree
10-02-2012 the victim was produced before the 54th Court
02-03-2012 the victim was sent to Rescue Foundation
The custody application of the mother of the victim was rejected
Hence this Application
Acts Referred;-
Prevention of Immoral Traffic Act, 1956.
Points to be urged:-
1) Whether the custody of victim is legal,
2) Whether the victim is entitled to set at liberty in the custody of her mother
Any citation to be cited:-
At the time of argument
IN THE COURT OF SPECIAL METROPOLITAN MAGISTRATE
54TH COURT, AT MAZGAON, MUMBAI
CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO OF 2012
IN
RA NO 31/2012 IN LAC NO 12/2012
URVASHI DHARMENDRA THAKUR
Aged about 22 years, having address
K-3/92/93, Sainik Enclave,
Mohan Garden, Uttam Nagar,
New Delhi
The Victim no 8 in RA/31/2012
Of Kala Chowki Police
Station dated 10/02/2012 ) …… Applicant
VERSUS
STATE OF MAHARASHTRA ) …. Respondent
Through Kala Chowki Police Station
HUMBLE APPLICANTION OF APPLICANT
MOST RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH:
The Applicant above named submits under:-
1. The Applicant was apprehended by the authorities of Kala Chowki Police
station under the provisions laid in the Prevention of immoral Traffic Act
(herein after referred as the said Act) and is at present at Bhoisar Rescue
Foundation. Hereto annexed and marked as Exhibit “ A” is the copy of the
Remand Application
2. The Applicant was produced before the Learned Magistrate 54th Court
wherein the Learned Magistrate was pleased to remand the Applicant to
Rescue Foundation, Bhoisar after the report submitted by the Probation
officer. The mother and natural Guardian of the Applicant applied for the
Custody of the Applicant wherein the Probation officer was misled by his
opinion and pleased to reject the Application for custody of the Applicant
without any scrutiny and the Applicant was sent to Rescue Foundation,
Bhoisar for a period of one year for training and rehabilitation. Hereto
annexed and marked as Exhibit “B” is the copy of the Order dated 2nd
March 2012.
3. The crux of the case is as under:-
The Applicant was apprehended by the authorities of the Kala Chowki
Police Station from the New Canara Restaurant & Bar, T. J. Road, Sewree,
wherein the Applicant was working as waiter. The Applicant was
apprehended along with others under the raid conducted by the Social
Service Branch of Mumbai Police, with the assistance of Kala Chowki
Police Station on 9th February 2012. The Applicant was produced before the
Learned Magistrate 54th Court. It is submitted in the Report of the Probation
officer that the Applicant, who is from New Delhi, was in Mumbai under the
pretext of false promise of marriage and she was employed in the said New
Canara Restaurant & Bar, T. J. Road, Sewree, Mumbai. The mother of the
Applicant made the Application for custody of the Applicant but the same
was rejected by Enquiry Report/order dated 2nd March 2012. Hence this
Application. Hereto annexed and marked as Exhibit “C” (colly) is the
copies of the Ration card, Pan Card and Family photographs to show the
relationship of the mother with Applicant.
4. It is submitted by the Applicant that the Order dated 2nd March, 2012
contains the Report of the Probation Officer submitted before the Ld.
Magistrate which itself reveals that the Applicant is 21 years of age and
uneducated. Further from the Report itself it also reveals that the Applicant
was brought to Mumbai on the promise of marriage. It is also submitted in
the Report that Applicant is needed a proper training to equip herself top the
world.
5. The Applicant submits that the Report of the Probation Officer is against the
principle of natural justice as from the Report it clears that the Applicant is
not consented or shown her willingness to get rehabilitation and training and
hence the acceptance of the order of Probation Officer will amount unlawful
detention of the Applicant.
6. It is submitted by the Applicant that the Ld Magistrate had obtained the
assistance of the enquiry committee as per inquiry u/s 17 of the said Act,
which is as under :
“ 1. When the special police officer removing a person under sub-section
(4) of section 15 or a police officer rescuing a person under sub-section (1)
of section 16, is for any reason unable to produce him before the appropriate
magistrate as required by sub-section (2) of section 16, he shall forthwith
produce him before the nearest magistrate of any class, who shall pass such
orders as he deems proper for his safe custody until he is produced before
the appropriate magistrate, or, as the case may be, the magistrate issuing the
order :
Provided that no person shall be :
(i) Detained in custody under this sub-section for a period
exceeding ten days from the date of the order under this
sub-section; or
(ii) Restored to or placed in the custody of a person who may
exercise a harmful influence over him.
2. When the person is produced before the appropriate magistrate under sub-
section 5 of section 15 or the magistrate under sub-section 2 of section 16,
he shall, after giving him an opportunity of being heard, cause an inquiry to
be made as to the correctness of the information received under sub-section
(1) of section 16, the age, character and antecedents of the person and the
suitability of his parents, guardian or husband for taking charge of him and
the nature of the influence which the conditions in his home are likely to
have on him if he is sent home, and, for this purpose, he may direct a
probation officer appointed under the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958, 20
of 1958, to inquire into the above circumstances and into the personality of
the person and the prospects of his rehabilitation.
3. The magistrate may, which an inquiry is made into a case under sub-section
(2), pass such orders as he deems proper for the safe custody of the person.
Provided that where a person rescued under section 16 is a child or
minor, it shall be open to the Magistrate to place such child or minor in any
institution established or recognized under any Children Act for the time
being in force in any State for the safe custody of children.
Provided further that, no person shall be kept in custody for the
purpose for a period exceeding three weeks from the date of such an order,
and no person shall be kept in the custody of a person likely to have a
harmful influence over him.
4. Where the magistrate is satisfied, after making an inquiry as required under
sub-section (2),
(a) that the information received is correct; and
(b) that he is in need of care and protection,
he may, subject to the provisions of sub-section (5), make an order
that such person be detained for such period, being not less than one year
and not more than three years, as may be specified in the order, in a
protective home, or in such other custody as he shall, for reasons to be
recorded in writing, consider suitable;
Provided that such custody shall not be that of a person or body of
persons of a religious persuasion different from that of the person and that
those entrusted with the custody of the person including the persons in
charge of a protective home, may be required to enter into a bond which
may, where necessary and feasible, contain undertakings based on directions
relating to the proper case, guardianship, education, training and medical
and psychiatric treatment of the person as well as supervision by a person
appointed by the court, which will be in force for a period not exceeding
three years.
5. In discharging his functions under sub-section (2), a magistrate may
summon a panel of five respectable persons, three of whom shall, wherever
practicable, be women, to assist him, and may, for this purpose, keep a list
of experienced social welfare workers, particularly women special welfare
workers, in the field of suppression of immoral traffic in persons.
7. An appeal against an order made under sub-section (4) shall lie to the Court
of Session whose decision on such appeal shall be final.”
8. It is submitted by the Applicant that while passing any order u/s 17 of the
said Act, the Ld. Magistrate is required to scrutinize the information
received through the inquiry report of the Probation Officer. Further it is the
mandate as per the provision of the said Act that the Ld Magistrate has to
give an opportunity of being heard the Applicant regarding Age, Character,
Antecedent of the Applicant and prospectus of rehabilitation which is absent
in the present case and hence the order of Probation officer is against law
and required to be set aside.
9. It is submitted by the Applicant that as far as the claim of the mother
regarding the custody of the Applicant, which has been rejected by the
Probation Officer and if the same will be accepted by the Ld. Magistrate
without any further inquiry the same will be against the principle of nature
of justice as the Probation Officer mislead herself that the mother has
allowed the Applicant to go with a stranger is beyond logical acceptance as
no mother will ever do or allow their own kids for the submission of the
Probation officer in the inquiry Report and hence the same is required to be
discarded in toto as the same is without any material substance.
10.It is submitted by the Applicant that the perusal of the enquiry report of the
Probation Officer or the remand application, nowhere it appears any
information to suggest the involvement of the Applicant in any immoral act
as alleged. Further nowhere the prime consideration that is the consent of the
Applicant regarding rehabilitation is a part of the Report and hence the
inquiry Report of the Probation Officer can be discarded in toto in default of
the mandate provision of law and if the order passed by the Probation officer
will be considered the same will against law and hence is required to set
aside.
11.The Applicant is before this Hon’ble Court with her Application/Appeal
against the inquiry Report of Probation Officer as against Applicant in
respect of order dated 2nd March 2012 on the grounds which are as under :
a. The inquiry Report of the Probation officer is against the principle of
equity and natural justice.
b. The inquiry Report of the Probation officer is nothing but non-
application of judicial mind.
c. The Report of the Probation Officer is full of legal errors and the same is
required to be set aside.
d. The inquiry Report of the Probation Officer is against the mandate
provision of Prevention of Immoral Traffic Act.
e. The Applicant has not given her consent regarding the rehabilitation.
f. There is no antecedent of the Applicant further the RA itself is self-
explanatory regarding the non-involvement of the Applicant.
g. The other Applicants are already released by the Ld. Magistrate.
h. The submission of the Probation Officer that the mother of Applicant had
allowed the Applicant to go with the male stranger, is grossly untrue.
i. The Probation Officer erred in reaching conclusion that the mother of the
Applicant will not take proper care of the Applicant in future and hence
she is not fit person to get custody of the Applicant.
It is therefore prayed as under:-
1. That the inquiry report of the Probation Officer in respect of order dated 2nd
March, 2012 in L.A.C No. 12 of 2012 in R.A. No. 31 of 2012 by probation
officer as against the Applicant Urvashi Dharmendra Thakur and the same
may be set aside by this Hon’ble Court.
2. That the Applicant Urvashi Dharmendra Thakur may be set at liberty in the
care of the Applicant being the mother and natural guardian of the
Applicant.
3. Any such other and further relief as this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and
proper in the circumstances of the case
Advocate for the Applicant
Urvashi D Thakur
Jiten N. Bhardwaj ` (Applicant)
(Advocate for Applicant)
Mumbai this th day of March 2012
VERIFICATION
I, Urvashi Dharmendra Thakur, an adult, Indian inhabitant residing at
K3/92/93, Sainik Enclave, Uttam Nagar, New Delhi do hereby state and declare on
solemn affirmation that whatever stated herein above is true and correct to the best
of my Knowledge and I declare the same to be true.
Explained and identified by me
Dated this th March 2012
Applicant
Jiten N. Bhardwaj
Advocate for Applicant
I am a member/not a member of the Welfare fund and therefore, additional court fee stamps of Rs. 2/- are not affixed herewith.
Advocate
IN THE COURT OF SPECIAL METROPOLITAN MAGISTRATE
54TH COURT, AT MAZGAON, MUMBAI
CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO OF 2012
IN
RA NO 31/2012 IN LAC NO 12/2012
URVASHI DHARMENDRA THAKUR
K-3/92/93, Sainik Enclave,
Mohan Garden, Uttam Nagar,
New Delhi
The Applicant in RA/31/2012
Of Kala Chowki Police
Station dated 10/02/2012 ) …… Applicant
VERSUS
STATE OF MAHARASHTRA ) …. Respondent
Through Kala Chowki Police Station
V A K A L A T N A M A
I, the Applicant above named hereby appoint Shri JITEN NAGENDRA
BHARDWAJ, & Shri AJAY TRIPATHI, Advocates, High Court Bombay, to act,
appear and plead for me in the above captioned matter.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I HAVE SET MY HANDS TO THIS WRITING ON
THIS TH DAY OF MARCH, 2012.
Urvashi Dharmendra Thakur
(Applicant)
Accepted by
Jiten N. Bhardwaj Ajay Tripathi
(Advocates)
IN THE COURT OF SPECIAL METROPOLITAN MAGISTRATE
54TH COURT, AT MAZGAON, MUMBAI
CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO OF 2012
IN
RA NO 31/2012 IN LAC NO 12/2012
URVASHI DHARMENDRA THAKUR
K-3/92/93, Sainik Enclave,
Mohan Garden, Uttam Nagar,
New Delhi
The Applicant No 8 in RA/31/2012
Of Kala Chowki Police
Station dated 10/02/2012 ) …… Applicant
VERSUS
STATE OF MAHARASHTRA ) …. Respondent
Through Kala Chowki Police Station
APPLICANT’S AFFIDAVIT
I, Urvashi Dharmendra Thakur, the Applicant above named, aged about 22 years,
do hereby beg to state on solemn affirmation as under :
1. The Applicant have filed the present Application inter-alia for various relief
as more particularly set out in the Application. I repeat, reiterate and adopt
the statements made out in the Application as if the same are incorporated
herein and form part of the present Affidavit. I crave leave to refer to any
rely upon the papers and proceedings in the Application when produced.
2. In the circumstances, I say and submit that the Applicant is entitled for the
reliefs as prayed for and if the same are not granted, irreparable injury, loss
and harm would be caused to the Applicant.
Solemnly affirmed at Mumbai.
This th day of March, 2012.
Applicant
Before me.
IN THE COURT OF SPECIAL
METROPOLITAN MAGISTRATE
54TH COURT, AT MAZGAON,
MUMBAI
CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO
OF 2012
IN
R.A. NO. 31/2012 IN L.A.C NO. 12/2012
URVASHI D. THAKUR
....APPLICANT
VERSUS
STATE OF MAHARASHTRA
......RESPONDENT
APPLICATION OF VICTIM NO. 8.
JEETEN N. BHARDWAJADVOCATE, HIGH COURT BOMBAY
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