Dhana Mary v. State Of Tamil Nadu

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED 30.06.2015

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE B.RAJENDRAN H.C.P. No.16 of 2015 Dhana Mary ... Petitioner -v1.State of Tamilnadu, rep. by the Secretary, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police, The Commissioner Office, Vepery, Chennai-600 007.

... 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 in Memo No.2197/BCDFGISSSV/2014, dated 16.12.2014 passed by the second respondent under the Tamilnadu Act 14 of 1982 and to set aside the same and to direct the respondents to produce the petitioner's son Dhoni, S/o.Anwar, aged about 29 years, the detenu, now confined in Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai before this court and to set the petitioner's son Dhoni, S/o.Anwar, aged about 29 years, the detenu herein at liberty.

For Petitioner :

Mr.D.Gopi Krishnan 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 Dhoni, S/o.Anwar, aged about 29 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in Memo No.2197/BCDFGISSSV/2014, dated 16.12.2014 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 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that the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the son of the petitioner dated 16.12.2014 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.1225, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XIII] Department dated 20.02.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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 vga To 1.State of Tamilnadu, rep. by the Secretary, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police, The Commissioner Office, Vepery, Chennai-600 007.

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

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

H.C.P. No.16 of 2015 SV(CO) Eu 13.07.15 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/