Nagooramma v. The Secretary To The

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED 21.07.2015

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.T.SELVAM H.C.P. No.680 of 2015 Nagooramma ... Petitioner -v1.State of Tamil Nadu Rep. by its Secretary to the Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai-9 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 to call for the records in connection with the order of detention passed by the second respondent in Memo No.138/BCDFGISSSV/2015 against the petitioner husband Mohammed Rafeeq @ Rafee, male aged 29 years, Son of Mohamed Ajees, who is confined at Central Prison, Puzhal II, Chennai and to set aside the same and direct the respondents to produce the detenu before this Court and to set him at liberty forthwith.

For Petitioner :

Mr.P.G.Santhoshkumar For Respondents:

Mr.M.Maharaja Addl. Public Prosecutor

O R D E R

(Order of the Court was made by S.TAMILVANAN,J.) The petitioner, who is the wife of the detenu Rafeeq @ Rafee, male aged 29 years, Son of Mohamed Ajees, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in Memo No.138/BCDFGISSSV/2015 dated 12.02.2015 passed by the second respondent against her husband branding him as a "Goonda" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the husband of the petitioner dated 12.02.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.2297, Home, Prohibition & Excise [X] Department dated 31.03.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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.

-s/dAssistant Registrar True Copy Sub-Assistant Registrar kal To 1.State of Tamil Nadu Rep. by its Secretary to the Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai-9 2.The Commissioner of Police, Chennai City, Egmore

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

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