Kumar v. The State Of Tamil Nadu

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED 15.07.2015

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.T.SELVAM H.C.P. No.626 of 2015 Kumar ... Petitioner -vs1. The State of Tamilnadu Rep. by its Secretary to Government, Home Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai-600 009.

Fort St. George, Chennai-9.

2. The Commissioner of Police, Chennai Police, Vepery, Chennai-7.

... Respondents Habeas Corpus Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for the issuance of a writ of Habeas Corpus to call for the entire records leading to the detention of the petitioner's son Dheena @ Dinesh, Son of Kumar, male aged 26 years has been detained under Act 14/82 as a Goonda vide detention order dated 11.02.2015 on the file of the second respondent made in BDFGISSSV No.136/2015 and quash the same and consequently direct the respondents herein to produce the body and person of the said detenu before this Court and to set him at liberty from the Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai. For Petitioner :

Mr.M.Rajavelu 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 Dheena @ Dinesh, Son of Kumar, aged about 26 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in No.136/BCDFGISSSV/2015, dated 11.02.2015 passed by the second respondent against his son branding him as a "Goonda" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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that the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the son of the petitioner dated 11.02.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.2296, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XIII] Department dated 31.03.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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(CO) //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar kal To

1. The Secretary to Government, Home Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai-600 009.

Fort St. George, Chennai-9.

2. The Commissioner of Police, Chennai Police, Vepery, Chennai-7.

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

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

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

H.C.P. No.626 of 2015 KJI(CO) CA(03/08/2015) https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/