Sathya, F/A 32 Years, v. The Government Of Tamil Nadu

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 13.03.2018

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.T.SELVAM and THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE N.SATHISH KUMAR H.C.P.No.2415/2017 Sathya .. Petitioner vs.

1.The Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XVI] Department Fort St George, Chennai 600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police Greater Chennai Police, O/o.The Commissioner of Police Chennai.

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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 detention order Memo No.717/BCDFGISSSV/2017 dated 15.11.2017 on the file of the 2nd respondent and quash the same and direct the respondents herein to produce the body of the petitioner husband Vikram, aged about 38 years, the detenu now confined in Central Prison, Puzhal, before this Court and set him at liberty.

For Petitioner .. Mr.J.Samiullah For Respondents.. Mr.R.Prathap Kumar, APP

ORDER

(Order of the Court was made by C.T.SELVAM, J.) Petitioner, wife of the detenu herein, viz., Vikaram, son of Dhatchanamurthy, aged 38 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the second respondent dated 15.11.2017 against her husband branding him as a "Goonda" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest Offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders, Sand Offenders, Slum https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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of detention passed by the second respondent as against the husband of the petitioner herein dated 15.11.2017, has been revoked by the Government in G.O.Rt.No.6109, Home, Prohibition & Excise [X] Department dated 27.12.2017 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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(CS II) //True copy// Sub Assistant Registrar AP To 1.The Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XVI] Department Fort St George, Chennai 600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police, Greater Chennai Police, O/o.The Commissioner of Police, Chennai.

3.The Superintendent, Central Prison, Puzhal Chennai.

4.The Secretary to Government, Public Law and Order, Fort. St.George, Chennai-9.

5.The Public Prosecutor, Madras High Court, Madras.

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