Neelamma v. The State Rep. By Its

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED 31.08.2015

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.T.SELVAM H.C.P. No.1264 of 2015 Neelamma ... Petitioner -vThe State represented by its 1.The Secretary to Government (Home) Prohibition and Excise Department, Government of Tamil Nadu, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

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

... 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 of pertaining to the order of detention dated 07.05.2015 passed by the second respondent in S.C.No.44/2015 and quash the same and product the detenu, Munikrishnan, aged about 29 years, S/o.Venkatramanappa, before this Court and set him at liberty detenu now confined in Central Prison, Salem.

For Petitioner :

Mr.S.Manoharan 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 Munikrishnan, S/o.Venkatramanappa, aged about 29 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in S.C. No.44/2015 dated 07.05.2015 passed by the second respondent against her husband branding him as a "Sand Offender" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the husband of the petitioner dated 07.05.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.3852, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XV] Department dated 18.06.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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.

-s/dAssistant Registrar(CO) dt:25/09/2015 True Copy Sub-Assistant Registrar To 1.The Secretary to Government (Home) Prohibition and Excise Department, Government of Tamil Nadu, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

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

3.The Secretary to Government Public (Law and Order) Secretariat Chennai-9 4.The Superintendent of Central Prison, Salem.

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

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