S.Venda v. The Secretary To The

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED 01.09.2015

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.T.SELVAM H.C.P. No.1399 of 2015 S.Venda ... Petitioner/Wife of the detenue -v1.The Secretary to Government (Home), Prohibition & Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai-600 009.

2.The District Collector & District Magistrate, Vellore District.

... 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 relating to the detention order passed by the second respondent in detention order C3/D.O.No.54/2015 dated 31.05.2015 and quash the same and direct the respondents to produce the body of the petitioner's husband, D.Sundaram, Son of Dhanapal, male aged 50 years, who is now confined at Central Prison, Vellore and set him at liberty to forthwith.

For Petitioner :

Mr.D.Balaji 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 Sundaram, son of Dhanapal, aged about 50 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in C3/D.O.No.54/2015 dated 31.05.2015 passed by the second respondent against her husband branding him as a "Bootlegger" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest Offenders, Goondas, Immoral https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the husband of the petitioner dated 31.05.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.4509, Home, Prohibition & Excise [IX] Department dated 22.07.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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:21/9/2015 True Copy Sub-Assistant Registrar To 1.The Secretary to Government (Home), Prohibition & Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai-600 009.

2.The District Collector & District Magistrate, Vellore District.

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

4.The Superintendent of Central Prison, Vellore.

5.The Secretary to Government, Public Law and order Fort St.George chennai-9 H.C.P. No.1399 of 2015 aa21/09/2015 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/