Mrs.B.Sampoornam v. The State Of Tamil Nadu

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 20.07.2015

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN and THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.T.SELVAM H.C.P.No.159/2015 B.Sampoornam ..Petitioner vs.

1.The State of Tamil Nadu rep by its Secretary, Home, Prohibition & Excise Department Fort St George, Chennai 600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police Salem City, Salem.

..Respondents Prayer : Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a writ of habeas corpus calling for the records in Memo No.09/BCDFGISSV/2015 dated 17.01.2015 on the file of the 2nd respondent herein and quash the same as illegal and direct the respondents to produce the detenu Pandiyan @ Kozhi Pandiyan, son of Kaliyaperumal, aged 27 years, now confined at Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai [as remand prisoner] before this Court and set him at liberty.

For Petitioner .. Mr.R.Sankarasubbu For Respondents.. Mr.M.Maharaja, APP

ORDER

(Order of the Court was made by S.TAMILVANAN, J.) The petitioner, who is wife of the detenu herein, viz., Pandiyan @ Kozhi Pandiyan, son of Kaliyaperumal, aged 27 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the second respondent dated 17.01.2015 against her husband 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 Piracy Act 1982 [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order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the husband of the petitioner herein dated 17.01.2015 has been revoked https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.1771, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XIV] Department dated 09.03.2015 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 //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar AP To 1.The Secretary, State of Tamil Nadu Home, Prohibition & Excise Department Fort St George, Chennai 600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police Salem City, Salem.

3.The Public Prosecutor, Madras High Court, Madras. 4.The Superintendent of Central Prison, Salem.

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

H.C.P.No.159/2015 SCD(CO) Eu 03.08.15 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/