Saraswathy v. The Government 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.255/2015 Saraswathy ..

Petitioner vs.

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

2.The Commissioner of Police Chennai Police.

.. 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 in No.2274/BCDFGISSV/2014 dated 29.12.2014 on the file of the 2nd respondent herein and quash the same and direct the respondents herein to produce the body of the said detenu Venkatraj, son of Narayanan, aged 27 years, now confined in Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai before this Court and set him at liberty. For Petitioner .. M/s.R.Subhadra Devi 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., Venkatraj, son of Narayanan, aged 27 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the second respondent dated 29.12.2014 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].

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the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the son of the petitioner herein dated 29.12.2014 has been revoked https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.1423, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XIII] Department dated 27.02.2015 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/- Asst.Registrar (CO) /true copy/ Sub Asst. Registrar AP 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 Chennai Police.

3.The Superintendent of Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai. 4.The Public Prosecutor, Madras High Court, Madras.

5. The Joint Secretary to Government Public (law and order) Fort Saint George, Chennai-9 H.C.P.No.255/2015 MG (CO) kk 20/7 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/