K.Chellathayee v. The State Rep. By Its

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.1354 of 2015 K.Chellathayee

...Petitioner/

Mother of the detenue -v1.The State represented by its Secretary to Government (Home), Prohibition and Excise Department, Government of Tamilnadu, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police, Chennai City, Chennai.

...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 order of detention dated 27.04.2015 passed by the second respondent in Memo No.361/BCDFGISSSV/2015 and quash the same and produce the detenu Ramachandran, aged about 31 years, S/o.Karuppasamy, before this Court and set him at liberty, the detenu now confined in Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai. 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 mother of the detenu Ramachandran, S/o.Karuppasamy, aged about 31 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in Memo No.361/BCDFGISSSV/2015 dated 27.04.2015 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that the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the son of the petitioner dated 27.04.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.3856, Home, Prohibition & Excise [X] Department dated 18.06.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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.

Sd/- Assistant Registrar(CO) //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar vga To 1.The State represented by its Secretary to Government (Home), Prohibition and Excise Department, Government of Tamilnadu, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police, Chennai City, Chennai.

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

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

5. The Joint Secretary to Government, Public (Law & Order) Fort St. George, Chennai - 9.

H.C.P. No.1354 of 2015 CTK (CO) PSI (22.09.2015)