Uma v. The State Rep By The

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.2457 of 2015 Uma ... Petitioner -Vs1.State, represented by the Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-9.

2.The District Magistrate and District Collector, Vellore District, Vellore-632 009.

... 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 of the second respondent pertaining to the order made in C3/D.O.No.89/2015 dated 10.09.2015, in detaining the detenue under the Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982 as a Bootlegger and quash the same and direct the respondents to produce the detenue namely Malliga, wife of Periya Munisamy, who is detained at the Special Prison for Women, Vellore, before this Court and set her at liberty. For Petitioner :

Mr.O.S.Thilak Pasumbadiar 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 daughter of the detenue Malliga, wife of Periya Munisamy, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in C3/D.O.No.89/2015 dated 10.09.2015 passed by the second respondent against her mother branding her as a "Bootlegger" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the mother of the petitioner dated 10.09.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.7034, Home, Prohibition & Excise [IX] Department dated 09.11.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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(J) //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar vga To 1.The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-9.

2.The District Magistrate and District Collector, Vellore District, Vellore-632 009.

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

4.The Superintendent of Special Prison for Women, Vellore.

H.C.P. No.2457 of 2015 EV(CO) CA(19/02/2016) https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/