Shankar v. State Of Tamil Nadu

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 28.04.2015

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN and THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE B.RAJENDRAN H.C.P.No.3317/2014 Shankar .. Petitioner vs.

1.State of Tamil Nadu Rep by its Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai - 600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police, Chennai Police, Chennai - 600 008.

.. Respondents Prayer : Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a writ of habeas corpus call for the entire records, relating to the petitioner's brother's detention under Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982 vide detention order, dated 07.11.2014 on the file of the second respondent herein made in proceedings No.1735/2014, quash the same as illegal and consequently direct the respondents herein to produce the petitioner's brother namely Karthick son of Kamalakannan aged 25 years before this Hon'ble High Court and set the petitioner's brother at liberty from detention, now the petitioner's brother detained at Central PrisonII, Puzhal, Chennai - 600 066. For Petitioner .. Mr.C.C.Chellappan For RR 1 & 2 .. Mr.M.Maharaja, APP

ORDER

(Order of the Court was made by S.TAMILVANAN, J.) The petitioner, who is brother of the detenu herein, viz.,Karthick,S/o. Kamalakannan, aged about 25 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the second respondent dated 07.11.2014 against his brother branding him as a "Goonda" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest Offenders, Goondas, https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

Immoral Traffic Offenders, Sand Offenders, Slum Grabbers and Video Piracy Act 1982 [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order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the husband of the petitioner herein dated 07.11.2014 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.7704, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XIII] Department dated 26.12.2014 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.

3. Recording the submission of the learned Additional Public Prosecutor, this petition is closed as the same has become infructuous.

Sd/- Assistant Registrar //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar nvi To 1.The Secretary to Government, State of Tamil Nadu Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai - 600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police, Chennai Police, Chennai - 600 008 3.The Public Prosecutor, Madras High Court, Madras. 4.The Superintendent of Central Prison II, Puzhal, Chennai. H.C.P.No.3317/2014 ksj(co) pmk.3.6.2015 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/