Mari v. The State Of Tamil Nadu

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED 14.07.2015

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.T.SELVAM H.C.P. No.259 of 2015 Mari ... Petitioner -v1.The State of Tamil Nadu represented by its Secretary to Government, Home Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai - 9.

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

... 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 D.O.No.04/2015-C2 on the file of the second respondent and to quash the order of detention dated 17.01.2015 and to direct the production of the detenu detained in Special Prison, Vellore, under the Act 14 of 1982 before this Court and to set the Pachaiyappan @ Kumar, male, aged 25 years, son of Mari at liberty. For Petitioner :

Mr.R.Balakrishnan For Respondents :

Mr.M.Maharaja Additional Public Prosecutor

O R D E R

(Order of the Court was made by S.TAMILVANAN,J.) The petitioner, who is the son of the detenu Pachaiyappan @ Kumar, male, aged 25 years, son of Mari, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in D.O.No.04/2015-C2 dated 17.01.2015 passed by the second respondent against his son branding him as a "Sexual Offender" 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]. 2.The learned Additional Public Prosecutor would submit that the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the father of the petitioner dated 17.01.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O.[Rt] No.1716, Home, Prohibition & Excise [X] Department dated 09.03.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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.

(STJ) (CTSJ) kkd 14.07.2015 To 1.The State of Tamil Nadu The Secretary to Government, Home Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai - 9.

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

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

4.The Superintendent, Central Prison, Vellore.

S.TAMILVANAN,J.

and C.T.SELVAM,J.

kkd H.C.P. No.259 of 2015 14.07.2015