K.Vijayakumar, M/A 38 Yrs, v. The Govt Of Tamilnadu

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 09.08.2018

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.T.SELVAM and THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.NIRMAL KUMAR H.C.P.No.558 of 2018 K.Vijayakumar ... Petitioner -Vs1.Government of Tamil Nadu rep. By its Secretary, Home, Prohibition and Excise (XVI) Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police, Coimbatore City.

... Respondents PRAYER: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus, calling for the records relating to the order of detention C.NO.29/G/IS/2018 dated, 02/03/2018 passed by the 2nd respondent and to quash the same and also to direct the detenue P.Shruthi @ Mythili Venkatesh, F/A 21 years, D/O.Prasanna Venkatesh, who is presently detained in the Central Prision, Special Prison For Women, Coimbatore to be produced before this Hon`ble court and set at liberty. For Petitioner : Ms.R.Subhadra Devi For Respondents: Mr. M.Mohamed Riyaz Additional Public Prosecutor ***

ORDER

[Order of the Court was made by C.T.SELVAM, J.] The petitioner, who is the cousin of the detenue herein, viz., P.Shruthi @ Mythili Venkatesh, Daughter of Prasanna Venkatesh, aged 21 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the second respondent https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

by his order in C.No.29/G/IS/2018, dated 02.03.2018 against his niece branding her as a "Goonda" 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order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the niece of the petitioner herein dated 02.03.2018 has been revoked by the Government in G.O.Rt.No.1465, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XII] Department dated 16.04.2018 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.

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

Sd/- Assistant Registrar(CO) //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar kmi To 1.The Secretary, Home, Prohibition and Excise (XVI) Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police, Coimbatore City.

3.The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras.

H.C.P.No.558 of 2018 PP(CO) TR(29/08/2018) https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/