Kaveri, W/O Babu v. The District Collector And

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED 11.08.2015

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.T.SELVAM H.C.P. No.1144 of 2015 Kaveri ... Petitioner -vs1.The District Collector and District Magistrate of Vellore District, Vellore-9.

2.The Secretary to Government, Government of Tamil Nadu (Home), Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

... Respondents Habeas Corpus Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for the issuance of a writ of Habeas Corpus calling for the records of the first respondent herein concerned in C3.D.O.No.41/2015 dated 23.04.2015 and set aside the order of detention passed therein against the detenu by name Babu, son of Mahadevan, aged about 47 years, Hindu, husband of the petitioner herein, quashing the same and setting him at liberty now detained in Central Prison, Vellore.

For Petitioner :

Mr.G.Vinodh Kumar 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 Babu, son of Mahadevan, aged about 47 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in C3.D.O.No.41/2015 dated 23.04.2015 passed by the first respondent against her husband branding him as a https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

"Bootlegger" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of 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the order of detention passed by the first respondent as against the husband of the petitioner dated 23.04.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.3763, Home, Prohibition & Excise [IX] Department dated 10.06.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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/- Assistant Registrar(CS V) //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar vga To 1.The District Collector and District Magistrate of Vellore District, Vellore-9.

2.The Secretary to Government, Government of Tamil Nadu (Home), Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

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

4.The Superintendent of Central Prison, Vellore.

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