Selvi v. The Secretary To The

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 01.07.2015

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN and THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE B.RAJENDRAN H.C.P.No.46/2015 Selvi

...Petitioner

vs.

1. The Secretary to the Government Home, Prohibition & Excise Department Secretariat, Chennai 600 009.

2. The Commissioner of Police Chennai 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 in connection with the order of detention passed by the 2nd respondent daetd 15.12.2014 in BCDFGISSV No.2174/2014 against the son of the petitioner detenu Ganesan, M/A 25, son of Ravichandran, who is confined at Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai and to set aside the same and consequently direct the respondents to produce the detenu before this Court and set him at liberty.

For Petitioner :

Mr.K.S.Kaviarasu 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., Ganesan, M/A 25, son of Ravichandran, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the second respondent dated 15.12.2014 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 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the son of the petitioner herein dated 15.12.2014 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.1222, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XIII] Department dated 20.02.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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(CO) //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar AP To

1. The Secretary to the Government Home, Prohibition & Excise Department Secretariat, Chennai 600 009.

2. The Commissioner of Police Chennai Police, Chennai.

3. The Joint Secretary to Government, Public (Law & Order) Fort St. George, Chennai - 9.

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

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

H.C.P.No.46/2015 BVR (CO) PSI (10.07.2015) https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/