Soundarrajan v. The Secretary To Government

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.2492 of 2015 Soundarrajan ... Petitioner -v1.The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Government of Tamil Nadu, Fort St. George, Chennai-9.

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

... 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 relating to the second respondent pertaining to the detention order made in C.M.P. No.52/Bootlegger/2015/M1 dated 07.09.2015, in detaining the detenu as 'Bootlegger' and quash the same and further direct the respondents to produce the said detenu namely Rameshbabu, S/o.Sundar Iyer, aged about 46 years, who is detained at Central Prison, Salem, before this Court and set him at liberty. For Petitioner :

Mr.D.Veerasekaran 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 friend of the detenu Rameshbabu, S/o.Sundar Iyer, aged about 46 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in C.M.P. No.52/Bootlegger/ 2015/M1 dated 07.09.2015 passed by the second respondent against his friend branding him as a "Bootlegger" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest Offenders, Goondas, Immoral https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the friend of the petitioner dated 07.09.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.6534, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XIV] Department dated 16.10.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.

3. Recording the submission of the learned Additional Public Prosecutor, this petition is closed as the same has become infructuous.

sd/- Assistant Registrar(Cs-VI) /TRUE COPY/ Sub-Assistant Registrar vga To 1.The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Government of Tamil Nadu, Fort St. George, Chennai-9.

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

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

4.The Superintendent of Central Prison, Salem.

H.C.P. No.2492 of 2015 CO-SVI JD 17/02/2016 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/