Keerthika v. State Rep.By

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 20.06.2024 CORAM :

THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE M.S.RAMESH AND THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNDER MOHAN Keerthika ... Petitioner/wife of the detenue Vs.

1.The State Rep. by The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Dept., Secretariat, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police, Salem City.

3.The Superintendent of Police, Central Prison, Salem.

4.The Inspector of Police, Shevapet Police Station, Salem.

... Respondents

Prayer : 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 made in C.M.P.No.6/Drug Offender/Salem City, dated 02.02.2024 on the file of the second respondent herein and quash the same as illegal and direct the respondents to produce the detenue, Manimaran @ Kadha Mani, S/o.Venkatachalam, aged about 31 years now confined at Central Prison, Salem, before this Court and set him at liberty. For Petitioner :

M/s.S.Sengkodi For Respondents :

Mr.A.Gokulakrishnan Additional Public Prosecutor

O R D E R

M.S.RAMESH , J.

and SUNDER MOHAN, J.

The petitioner is the wife of the detenu viz., Manimaran @ Kadha Mani, S/o.Venkatachalam, aged about 31 years, now confined at Central Prison, Salem, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the second respondent dated 02.02.2024, branding him as "Drug Offender" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of 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that the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the petitioner's husband, dated 02.02.2024 has been revoked by the Government in G.O.Rt.No.1465, Home, Prohibition and Excise (XIV) Department, dated 13.03.2024 and he has also produced a copy of the said order. 3.Recording the submission of the learned Additional Public Prosecutor, this petition is dismissed as the same has become infructuous. [M.S.R., J] [S.M., J] 20.06.2024 Anu Internet : Yes Index : Yes / No

M.S.RAMESH , J.

and SUNDER MOHAN, J.

Anu To

1. The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Dept., Secretariat, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police, Salem City.

3.The Superintendent of Police, Central Prison, Salem.

4.The Inspector of Police, Shevapet Police Station, Salem.

5.The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras.

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