Angala Eswari v. State Rep By

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.491/2015 Angala Eswari .. Petitioner vs.

1.The Secretary to Government Home, Prohibition & Excise Department Secretariat, Fort St George, Chennai-9.

2.The Commissioner of Police Chennai Police.

.. 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 BCDFGISSV No.2293/2014 dated 31.12.2014 on the file of the 2nd respondent and quash the same as illegal and direct the respondents to produce the detenu Manimaran, son of Anandan, aged about 24 years now confined at Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai and set him at liberty.

For Petitioner .. Mr.S.Rajanikanth 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., Manimaran, son of Anandan, aged about 24, 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].

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the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the son of the petitioner herein dated 31.12.2014 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.1620, Home, Prohibition & Excise [X] Department dated 05.03.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.

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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 Secretariat, Fort St George, Chennai-9.

2.The Commissioner of Police Chennai Police.

3.The Public Prosecutor, Madras High Court, Madras. 4.The Superintendent of Central Prison, Vellore. H.C.P.No.491/2015 GJ(CO) EU 31.07.15 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/