The Indian judiciary, in a catena of cases, has effectively resorted to the writ of "habeas corpus" to secure release of a person from illegal detention. For example, in October 2009, the Karnataka High Court heard a "habeas corpus" petition filed by the parents of a girl who married a Muslim boy from Kannur district and was allegedly confined in a "madrasa" in Malapuram town. Usually, in most other jurisdictions, the writ is directed at police authorities. The extension to non-state authorities has its grounds in two cases: the 1898 Queen's Bench case of "Ex Parte Daisy Hopkins", wherein the Proctor of Cambridge University did detain and arrest Hopkins without his jurisdiction, and Hopkins was released, and that of "Somerset v Stewart", in which an African slave whose master had moved to London was freed by action of the writ.