Arumugam v. The Secretary To The

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.438 of 2015 Arumugam ... Petitioner -v1.The Secretary to Government, Home Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai 600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police, Chennai City.

... 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 Memo No.03/BCDFGISSSV/2015 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 Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai, under the Act 14 of 1982 before this Court and to set the detenu Bala @ Bala Kumar, male, aged 25 years, son of Arumugam at liberty.

For Petitioner :

Mr.S.Senthil Vel 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 father of the detenu Bala @ Balakumar, male, aged 25 years, son of Arumugam, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in Memo No.03/BCDFGISSSV/2015 dated 17.01.2015 passed by the second respondent against his son branding her 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 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the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the mother of the petitioner dated 17.01.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O.[Rt] No.1764, Home, Prohibition & Excise [X] Department dated 09.03.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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.

Sd/- Asst.Registrar (CS II ) /true copy/ Sub Asst. Registrar To 1.The Secretary to Government, Home Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai 600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police, Chennai City.

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

4.The Superintendent, Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai-66. H.C.P. No.438 of 2015 ala(co) cpp 31.07.2015

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