Showrya Reddy v. The State Of Telangana

HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY AND HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE GUDISEVA SHYAM PRASAD WRIT PETITION No.10689 of 2018 Date: 03.07.2018 Between :

Ms. Showrya Reddy ... Petitioner And The State of Telangana, rep. by its Chief Secretary, Secretariat Buildings, Hyderabad and others ... Respondents COUNSEL FOR PETITIONER : Sri T. Niranjan Reddy, Sr. Counsel, representing Sri P. Vishnuvardhana Reddy COUNSEL FOR RESPONDENTS : G.P. for Home (T.S.) THE COURT MADE THE FOLLOWING:

ORDER : (per Hon'ble Sri Justice C.V. Nagarjuna Reddy) This writ petition is filed for the following substantive relief: ".... to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus under Article 226 of the Constitution of India directing the respondents herein to produce the body of Medagam Jaya Bharath Reddy @ Jai Bharath Reddy, s/o. Venkateshwar Reddy, aged about 46 years, R/o. Gandhinagar, H/o. Jannepally Village, Navipet Mandal, Nizamabad, Nizamabad District, before this Hon'ble Court and he may be ordered to be released / set at liberty forthwith by declaring the order of detention passed by the 3rd respondent vide Procgs.No.01/PDC/NZB/2018, dated 07.01.2018 as confirmed by the 2nd respondent in G.O.Rt.No.426, General Administration (Spl. (Law & Order) Department, dated 05.03.2018, after receiving the report of the Advisory Board on 23.02.

2018, as illegal, arbitrary, void and unconstitutional ...." Today, the learned Government Pleader for Home (T.S.) has placed before this Court a copy of G.O.Rt.No.1227, General Administration (Spl. (Law & Order) Department, dated 27.06.2018, revoking the detention order 'on humanitarian and medical grounds'.

While we do not subscribe to the reasons under which the said G.O. has been issued, we however, do not wish to carry the matter further as the respondents have taken corrective steps albeit under the cover of the above mentioned grounds. In view of issuance of the above G.O.Rt.No.1227, dated 27.06.2018, consequent on which the detenu was released, the cause

in the writ petition does not survive for adjudication and the writ petition is accordingly disposed of as infructuous. No order as to costs.

____________________________ C.V. NAGARJUNA REDDY, J ____________________________ GUDISEVA SHYAM PRASAD, J 03.07.2018.

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