Reeta v. The State Of Tamil Nadu

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 13.07.2015

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN and THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.T.SELVAM H.C.P.No.397/2015 Reeta

...Petitioner

vs.

1. The Secretary to Government, State of Tamil Nadu, Home, Prohibition & Excise Department [Home] Secretariat, Chennai 600 009.

2. The Commissioner of Police Chennai.

...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 relating to the detenu's detention order passed by the 2nd respondent dated 05.12.2014 in No.2082/BDFGISSV/2014 and set aside the same and produce the detenu Vela @ Velankanni, male, aged about 31 years, son of John Moses, now detained in Central Prison II, Puzhal, Chennai before this Court and set him at liberty. For Petitioner :

Mr.Mohammed Aasif 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., Vela @ Velankanni, male, aged about 31 years, son of John Moses, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the second respondent dated 05.12.2014 against her son branding him as a "Goonda" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest Offenders, Goondas, Immoral https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the son of the petitioner herein dated 05.12.2014 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.1113, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XIII] Department dated 16.02.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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/- Assistant Registrar(CS-II) //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar AP To

1. The Secretary to Government, State of Tamil Nadu, Home, Prohibition & Excise Department [Home] Secretariat, Chennai 600 009.

2. The Commissioner of Police Chennai.

3. The Superintendent of Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai.

4. The Public Prosecutor, Madras High Court, Madras.

H.C.P.No.397/2015 MG (CO) PSI (21.08.2015) https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/