Muniyammal v. The Secretary To Government

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED 03.02.2016

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE D.HARIPARANTHAMAN H.C.P. No.2406 of 2015 Muniyammal ... Petitioner -v1. The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

2. The District Collector and District Magistrate, Vellore District, Vellore-9.

... 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 C3.D.O.No.75 of 2015 dated 27.07.2015 on the file of the second respondent and quash the same as illegal and thereby direct the respondents to produce the detenu by name Iyyappan, son of Rajendran, aged 26 years, before this Court, who is now detained in Central Prison, Vellore and set him at liberty forthwith.

For Petitioner :

Mr.M.Mohamed Hasain 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 mother of the detenu Iayyappan, Son of Rajendran, aged about 26 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in C3.D.O.No.75 of 2015 dated 27.07.2015 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 Traffic Offenders, Sand 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that the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the son of the petitioner dated 27.07.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.5987, Home, Prohibition & Excise [IX] Department dated 21.09.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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.

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

2. The District Collector and District Magistrate, Vellore District, Vellore-9.

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

4. The Superintendent of Central Prison, Vellore.

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