Muniyammal v. The State Of Tamil Nadu

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED 22.06.2015

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.T.SELVAM H.C.P. No.135 of 2015 Muniyammal ... Petitioner -vs1.The State of Tamil Nadu, represented by its Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

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

... 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 detention made in D.O. No.51/2014-C2 dated 22.12.2014 passed by the District Collector and District Magistrate, Thiruvannamalai District, Thiruvannamalai, the second respondent herein and to set aside the same and to direct the respondents to produce the detenue before this Court and to set the detenue Vanitha, wife of (Late) Selvam, aged about 35 years, now confined in Special Prison for Women, Vellore at liberty.

For Petitioner :

Mr.R.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 mother of the detenue Vanitha, wife of (Late) Selvam, aged about 35 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in D.O. No.51/2014-C2 dated 22.12.2014 passed by the second respondent against her daughter https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

branding her as a "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the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the daughter of the petitioner dated 22.12.2014 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.1598, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XI] Department dated 05.03.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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 IV) //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar vga To 1.The State of Tamil Nadu, represented by its Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

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

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

4.The Superintendent, Special Prison for Women, Vellore.

H.C.P. No.135 of 2015 TM(CO) CA(03/07/2015) https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/