Santhanam v. The Secretary To Government

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 20.07.2015

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN and THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.T.SELVAM H.C.P.No.431/2015 Santhanam ..

Petitioner vs.

1.The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition & Excise Department Fort St George, Chennai 600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police Greater Chennai, Vepery, Chennai 600007.

.. 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 connection with the order of detention passed by the 2nd respondent dated 31.12.2014 in BDFGISSV No.2305/2014 against the petitioner's son, the detenu herein now confined at Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai and set aside the same and to direct the respondents to produce the detenu Thiru Lakshmanan, son of Veera Thevar, aged about 26 years before this Court and set him at liberty. For Petitioner .. Mr.A.Nirmal Kumar 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., Lakshmanan, son of Veera Thevar, aged about 26 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the second respondent dated 31.12.2014 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].

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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the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the son of the petitioner herein dated 31.12.2014 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.1730, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XIII] Department dated 09.03.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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.

Sd/- Assistant Registrar //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar AP To 1.The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition & Excise Department Fort St George, Chennai 600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police Greater Chennai, Vepery, Chennai 600007.

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

5. The Joint Secretary to Government Public (Law & order), Fort St. George, Chennai. 600 009. H.C.P.No.431/2015 msm(co) eu 10.08.15 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/