Kavery v. The District Collector And

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED 22.06.2015

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.T.SELVAM H.C.P. No.196 of 2015 Kavery ... Petitioner -v1.The District Collector and District Magistrate, Vellore District.

2.Government of Tamil Nadu, rep. by its Secretary, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai-600 009.

3.The Superintendent, Special Prison for Women, Central Prison, 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 in detention order C3.D.O.No.01/2015 dated 05.01.2015 on the file of the first respondent and to quash the same and to direct the respondents herein to produce the body of the detenu Sumathi, F/A.36 years, W/o.Nagaraj, now confined in Special Prison for Women, Vellore before this Court and to set her at liberty. For Petitioner :

Ms.S.P.Arthi 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 Sumathi, W/o.Nagaraj, aged about 36 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in C3.D.O.No.01/2015 dated 05.01.2015 passed by the first respondent against her daughter branding him as a "Bootlegger" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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the order of detention passed by the first respondent as against the daughter of the petitioner dated 05.01.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.1638, Home, Prohibition & Excise [IX] Department dated 05.03.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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 vga To 1.The District Collector and District Magistrate, Vellore District.

2.The Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai-600 009.

3.The Superintendent, Special Prison for Women, Central Prison, Vellore District.

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

H.C.P. No.196 of 2015 GJ(CO) Eu 06.07.15 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/