Mohana v. The Secretary To Government

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 29.04.2015

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN and THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE B.RAJENDRAN H.C.P.No.3465/2014 Mohana

...Petitioner/

Wife of detenue vs.

1. The Secretary to Government Home, Prohibition & Excise Department Fort St George, Chennai 600 009.

2. The Commissioner of Police Egmore, Chennai.

...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 2nd respondent in BDFGISSV No.1872/2014 dated 17.11.2014 against detenu namely Balaraman, son of Anbazhagan, aged about 30 years, who is now confined at Central Prison, Puzhal and set aside the same and direct the respondents to produce the detenu before this Court and set him at liberty.

For Petitioner :

Mr.M.Mohana Sundaram For RR 1 & 2 :

Mr.M.Maharaja, APP

ORDER

(Order of the Court was made by S.TAMILVANAN, J.) The petitioner, who is wife of the detenu herein, viz., Balaraman, son of Anbazhagan, aged about 30 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the second respondent dated 17.11.2014 against her husband branding him as a "Goonda" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest Offenders, Goondas, 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order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the husband of the petitioner herein dated 17.11.2014 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.403, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XIII] Department dated 19.01.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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-IV) //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar AP To

1. The Secretary to Government Home, Prohibition & Excise Department Fort St George, Chennai 600 009.

2. The Commissioner of Police Egmore, Chennai.

3. The Superintendent of Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai.

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

H.C.P.No.3465/2014 SR (CO) PSI (21.05.2015) https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/