Daijiworld Media Network – Bangalore (SP)

Bangalore, Jan 29: On Wednesday January 27, the state High Court ordered the state director general of police to appear in person in the court on Tuesday February 1, relating to the case of a missing girl from Puttur taluk, Dakshina Kannada district.

The division bench of the High Court, comprising K Sridhar Rao and Subhash B Adi, passed this order, while hearing a habeas corpus petition.

Geeta, daughter of Mukrappa Gowda, a resident of Eshwaramangala in Puttur taluk, went missing on July 16, 2009. She has never been seen again after that day. The bench wants to know as to whether it was a case of abduction, the alleged ‘Love Jehad’ or something else.

In his habeas corpus petition, Gowda has said that the policemen have failed to find out the whereabouts of his daughter, even after several months of her disappearance. While expressing suspicion about the involvement of a person named Sharif Ulla in her disappearance, he has sought directions from the court to the policemen, to produce his daughter in the court.

The Puttur policemen have already filed affidavit in the High Court, giving details of the steps taken by them to trace Geeta. They have said that besides questioning Shariff and Ummer Pasha in the case, they had conducted search operations in Palakkad and Ponnani in Kerala, but had failed to trace her.