Rajakala v. The Secretary To Government

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED 05.10.2015

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE G.CHOCKALINGAM H.C.P. No.1549 of 2015 Rajakala ... Petitioner -v1.The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police/ Detaining Authority, Coimbatore City, Coimbatore.

... 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 entire records relating to the petitioner's son detention under Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982 vide detention order dated 17.06.2015 on the file of the second respondent herein made in proceedings Memo C.No.26/G/IS/2015, quash the same as illegal and consequently direct the respondents herein to produce the petitioner's son namely S.Kavaskhan, S/o.Seenibabu, aged 24 years, before this Court and to set the petitioner's son at liberty from detention, now the petitioner's son detained at Central Prison, Coimbatore. For Petitioner :

Mr.W.Camyles Gandhi For Respondents :

Mr.M.Maharaja Additional Public Prosecutor

O R D E R

(Order of the Court made by S.TAMILVANAN,J.) The petitioner, who is the mother of the detenu S.Kavaskhan, S/o.Seenibabu, aged 24 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in Memo C.No.26/G/IS/2015 dated 17.06.2015 passed by the second respondent against her son branding him as a "Goonda" under the https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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that the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the son of the petitioner dated 17.06.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.4626, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XII] Department dated 28.07.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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(CSIV) dt:15/10/2015 True Copy Sub-Assistant Registrar To 1.The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police/ Detaining Authority, Coimbatore City, Coimbatore.

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

4.The Superintendent of Central Prison, Coimbatore.

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