Rani v. The State Of Tamilnadu

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.803 of 2015 Rani ... Petitioner/Mother of the Detenue -vs1. The State of Tamilnadu, Rep. by its Secretary to Government, Prohibition and Excise Department (Home), Secretariat, Fort St. George, Chennai-9.

2. The Commissioner of Police, Chennai City, Vepery, Chennai-600 007.

... 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 dated 26.12.2014 in BCDFGISSSV/No.2257/2014 against the petitioner's son Vinayagam, Son of Paramasivam, aged about 23 years and now he was confined at Central Prison, Puzhal II, Chennai and to set aside the same and to direct the respondents to produce the body of detenu before this Court and to set him at liberty. For Petitioner :

Mr.S.Elankumaran 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 mother of the detenu Vinayagam, Son of Paramasivam, aged about 23 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in BCDFGISSSV No.2257/2014, dated 26.12.2014 passed by the second respondent against her son branding him as a "Goonda" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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that the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the son of the petitioner dated 26.12.2015 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.1614, Home, Prohibition & Excise [X] Department dated 05.03.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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 State of Tamilnadu, Rep. by its Secretary, Home Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai-600 009.

2. The Commissioner of Police, Chennai.

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

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

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

H.C.P. No.803 of 2015 SR(CO) CA(04/08/2015) https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/