Soundarrajan v. State Of Tamil Nadu Rep By

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED: 12.03.2015

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.JAICHANDREN and THE HONOURABLE MS.JUSTICE K.B.K.VASUKI H.C.P.No.2497 of 2014 Soundarrajan ..Petitioner/husband of the detenue vs.

1.The State of Tamil Nadu represented by Secretary to the Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St.George, Chennai 600 009.

2.The District Collector and District Magistrate, Vellore District, Vellore.

.. Respondents Prayer : Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a writ of habeas corpus calling for the records leading to the detention of the petitioner's wife, Krishnaveni, Wife of Soundarrajan, female, aged 45 years has been detained under Act 14/82 as a "Goonda" vide detention order dated 27.08.2014 on the file of the 2nd respondent herein made in C3/D.O.No.71/2014 and quash the same and consequently direct the respondents herein to produce the body and person of the said detenue before this Court and thereafter set her at liberty from the Special Prison for Women,Vellore.

For Petitioner .. Mr.O.S.Thilak Pasumbadiyar For Respondents .. Mr.C.Emalias,Addl.P.P.

O R D E R

The petitioner, who is the husband of the detenu, Krishnaveni, Wife of Soundarrajan, aged about 45 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the 2nd respondent dated 27.08.2014 against his wife branding her as a "Bootlegger" 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].

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2.The learned Additional Public Prosecutor would submit that the order of detention passed by the 2nd respondent as against the wife of the petitioner dated 27.08.2014 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.5147, dated 15.10.2014 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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 infructuous. Sd/- Assistant Registrar //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar vsi To 1.The Secretary to the Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St.George, Chennai 600 009.

2.The District Collector and District Magistrate, Vellore District, Vellore.

3. The Superintendent Central Prison, Vellore. 4.The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Chennai. H.C.P.No.2497 of 2014 CTK(CO) Eu 31.03.15 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/