Rani v. The State Of Tamil Nadu Rep By

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED 04.02.2016

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE D.HARIPARANTHAMAN H.C.P. No.2082 of 2015 Rani ... Petitioner -v1.The State of Tamil Nadu, rep. by its Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

2.The District Collector and District Magistrate, Thiruvannamalai District, Thiruvannamalai.

... 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 records of the detention made in D.O. No.41/2015-C2 dated 03.08.2015 passed by the District Collector and District Magistrate, Thiruvannamalai District, Thiruvannamalai, the second respondent herein, set aside the same, and to direct the respondents to produce the detenu before this Court and set the detenu Palani, son of Tirupathi, aged 39 years, now confined in Central Prison, Vellore at liberty. For Petitioner :

Mr.R.Balakrishnan For Respondents:

Mr.A.N.Thambidurai 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 Palani, son of Tirupathi, aged 39 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in D.O. No.41/2015-C2 dated 03.08.2015 passed by the second respondent against her husband https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

branding him as a "Bootlegger" under the 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the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the husband of the petitioner dated 03.08.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.6014, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XI] Department dated 21.09.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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 True Copy Sub-Assistant Registrar vga To

1. The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

2. The District Collector and District Magistrate, Thiruvannamalai District, Thiruvannamalai.

3. The Superintendent of Central Prison, Vellore.

4. The Joint Secretary to Government Public Law and Order Fort St.George Chennai-9

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

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