Malarkodi v. State Of Tamil Nadu

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED 31.07.2015

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.T.SELVAM H.C.P. No.1109 of 2015 Malarkodi ... Petitioner/wife of the Detenue -v1.State of Tamil Nadu, rep. by its Secretary to Government Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai-600 009.

2.The District Magistrate and District Collector, Tiruppur District, Tiruppur.

... Respondents Habeas Corpus Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for the issuance of a writ of Habeas Corpus to call for the records pertaining to the detention order passed in Cr.M.P. No.07/Goonda/2015 dated 28.03.2015 on the file of the second respondent herein and to set aside the same and to direct the respondents herein to produce the detenu Nagaraj, son of Arjunan, aged about 40 years, who is confined in Central Prison, Coimbatore, before this Court and to set him at liberty.

For Petitioner :

Mr.M.N.Balakrishnan For Respondents:

Mr.M.Maharaja Additional Public Prosecutor

O R D E R

(Order of the Court was made by S.TAMILVANAN,J.) The petitioner, who is the wife of the detenu Nagaraj, son of Arjunan, aged about 40 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in Cr.M.P. No.07/Goonda/2015 dated 28.03.2015 passed by the second respondent against her husband branding him as a "Goonda" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest Offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders, Sand Offenders, Slum Grabbers and Video Pirates Act, 1982 [Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982]. 2.The learned Additional Public Prosecutor would submit that the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the husband of the petitioner dated 28.03.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.3166, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XII] Department dated 11.05.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.

3. Recording the submission of the learned Additional Public Prosecutor, this petition is closed as the same has become infructuous.

Sd/- Asst.Registrar (J) /true copy/ Sub Asst. Registrar vga To 1.The Secretary to Government State of Tamil Nadu, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai-600 009.

2.The District Magistrate and District Collector, Tiruppur District, Tiruppur.

3.The Public Prosecutor, High Court of Madras, Chennai 600 104.

4.The Superintendent of Central Prison, Coimbatore.

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