Nagaraj v. Government Of Tamilnadu Rep By

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 23.2.2016

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.JAICHANDREN and THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE S.NAGAMUTHU H.C.P.No.2217 of 2015 Nagaraj ..Petitioner(Father) Vs.

1. Government of Tamil Nadu rep by its Principal Secretary, Home Prohibition & Excise (XVI) Department Fort St. George, Chennai - 600 009

2. The Commissioner of Police Coimbatore City ..

Respondents Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, praying to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus calling for the records in C.No.34/G/IS/2015 dated 6.8.2015 on the file of the 2nd respondent herein and quash the same and direct the respondents herein to produce the body of the petitioner's son N.Vignesh, aged 25 years, now confined in Central Prison, Coimbatore, before this Court and set him at liberty. For Petitioner : Ms.R.Subhadra Devi For Respondents : Mr.A.N.Thambi Durai Addl. Public Prosecutor

O R D E R

[Order of the Court was made by M.JAICHANDREN, J.] The petitioner, who is the father of the detenu, N.Vignesh, son of Nagaraj, aged about 25 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the 2nd respondent dated 6.8.2015 against his son branding him as a "Goonda" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Cyber Law Offenders, Drug Offenders, Forest Offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders, Sand Offenders, Sexual Offenders, Slum Grabbers and Video Pirates Act, 1982 [Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982].

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2.The learned Additional Public Prosecutor would submit that the order of detention passed by the 2nd respondent as against the son of the petitioner dated 6.8.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. Rt No.6267, dated 6.10.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.

3. Recording the submission of the learned Additional Public Prosecutor, this petition is dismissed as infructuous. Sd/- Assistant Registrar(CS III) //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar To:

1. The Principal Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu Home Prohibition & Excise (XVI) Department Fort St. George, Chennai - 600 009

2. The Commissioner of Police Coimbatore City 3.The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras.

4.The Superintendent, Central Prison, Coimbatore.

5.The Joint Secretary to Government, Public (Law & Order) Department, Secretariat, Chennai-9.

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