Samandhi v. State Of Tamil Nadu

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 08.07.2015

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN and THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.T.SELVAM H.C.P.No.219/2015 Samandi ..Petitioner vs.

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

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

..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 relating to the detention order in Memo No.2177/BCDFGISSV/2014 dated 16.12.2014 passed by the 2nd respondent under the Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982 and set aside the same and direct the respondent to produce the petitioner's son Vinoth, son of Veeramani, aged about 24 years, the detenu now confined at Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai before this Court and set the petitioner's son Vinoth, son of Veeramani, aged about 24 years, the detenu herein at liberty.

For Petitioner .. Mr.D.Gopi Krishnan For RR 1 & 2 .. Mr.M.Maharaja, APP

ORDER

(Order of the Court was made by S.TAMILVANAN, J.) The petitioner, who is mother of the detenu herein, viz., Vinoth, son of Veeramani, aged about 24 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the second respondent dated 16.12.2014 against her son 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]. https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the son of the petitioner herein dated 16.12.2014 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.1234, Home, Prohibition & Excise [X] Department dated 20.02.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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 To 1.The Secretary, State of Tamil Nadu Home, Prohibition & Excise Department Fort St George, Chennai 600 009.

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

3.The Public Prosecutor, Madras High Court, Madras. 4.The Superintendent of Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai. H.C.P.No.219/2015 GGK (co) cp 05.08.2015 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/