Tmt.K.Renugadevi v. The Secretary To Government

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.795 of 2015 K.Renugadevi ... Petitioner -v1.The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai-9 2.The Commissioner of Police, Detaining Authority, Coimbatore 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 Detention Order C.No.03/G/IS/2015 dated 23.02.2015 against the petitioner's husband S.Kannan @ Tamilazhagan, male aged 29 years, son of Shanmugam, who is confined at Central Prison, Coimbatore 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.V.Paarthiban 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 S.Kannan @ Tamil Azhagan, aged 29 years, son of Shanmugam, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in C.No.03/G/IS/2015 dated 23.02.2015 passed by the second respondent against her husband branding him as a "Immoral Traffic Offender" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest Offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders, Sand Offenders, https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the husband of the petitioner dated 23.02.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.2691, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XII] Department dated 22.042015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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 //True copy// Sub Assistant Registrar To 1.The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai-9 2.The Commissioner of Police, Detaining Authority, Coimbatore City.

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

H.C.P.No.795 of 2015 VSN (co) cp 07.08.2015 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/