Bakkiya Lakshmi v. The Secretary To Government

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED: 30.3.2015

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.JAICHANDREN AND THE HONOURABLE MS.JUSTICE K.B.K.VASUKI H.C.P.No.2828 of 2014 Bakkiya Lakshmi ... Petitioner vs.

1. The Secretary to the Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai 600 009.

2. The Commissioner of Police, Chennai City ... 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 in connection with the order of detention passed by the second respondent dated 22.9.2014 in Memo No.1328/BDFGISSV/2014 against the petitioner son Govindaraj @ Gnani, male aged 25 years, s/o.Vijayarangan, who is confined at Central Prison, Puzhal II, Chennai, and set aside the same and direct the respondents to produce the detenu before this Court and set him at liberty. For Petitioner : Mr.S.Senthil Vel For Respondents : Mr.C.Emalias,Addl.P.P.

O R D E R

The petitioner, who is the mother of the detenu, Govindaraj @ Gnani, son of Vijayarangan, aged about 25 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the 2nd respondent dated 22.9.2014 against her son branding him as a "Goonda" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest Offenders, Goondas, Immoral https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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that the order of detention passed by the 2nd respondent as against the son of the petitioner dated 22.9.2014 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.6041, dated 19.11.2014 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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(CS III) //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar vsi/lan To

1. The Secretary to the Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai 600 009.

2. The Commissioner of Police, Chennai City

3. The Superintendent, Central Prison, Puzhal - II, Chennai

4. The Joint Secretary to Government, Public (Law & Order) Department of Secretariat, Chennai - 9.

5. The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Chennai.

H.C.P.No.2828 of 2014 GP(CO) CA(12/05/2015) https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/