Selvi v. The Secretary To Government

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED 24.08.2015

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.T.SELVAM H.C.P. No.1242 of 2015 Selvi ... Petitioner -v1.The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police, Office of the Commissioner of Police, Vepery, Chennai-600 007.

... 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 in connection with the detention order passed by the second respondent in 324/BCDFGISSSV/2015 dated 17.04.2015 against the petitioner's son the detenu herein, now confined in Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai and set aside the same and direct the respondents to produce the detenue Charles, son of Srinivasan, before this Court and to set him at liberty.

For Petitioner :

Mr.A.Nirmal 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 mother of the detenu Charles, son of Srinivasan, aged about 28 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in Memo 324/BCDFGISSSV/2015 dated 17.04.2015 passed by the second respondent against her son branding him as a "Goonda" 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that the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the son of the petitioner dated 17.04.2015 has been revoked by the Government https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

in G.O. [Rt] No.3601, Home, Prohibition & Excise [X] Department dated 02.06.2015 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 //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar vga To 1.The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police, Office of the Commissioner of Police, Vepery, Chennai-600 007.

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

4.The Superintendent of Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai.

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