Pichaimuthu v. The Commissioner Of Police

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED 09.06.2015

CORAM

THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE S.TAMILVANAN AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE C.T.SELVAM H.C.P. No.3523 of 2014 Pichaimuthu ... Petitioner -v1.The Commissioner of Police, Chennai Police.

2.The Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

... Respondents Habeas Corpus Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for the issuance of a writ of Habeas Corpus calling for the records in Memo No.1836/BCDFGISSSV/2014 on the file of the first respondent and to quash the detention order dated 15.11.2014 and to direct the production of the detenu Bharath @ Bharath Kumar, son of Palani, aged about 31 years presently detained at the Central Prison, Puzhal under the Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982 before this Court and to set him at liberty.

For Petitioner :

Mr.H.Rajasekar For Respondents:

Mr.M.Maharaja Addl. Public Prosecutor

O R D E R

(Order of the Court was made by S.TAMILVANAN,J.) The petitioner, who is the mother of the detenu Bharath @ Bharath Kumar, son of Palani, aged about 31 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in Memo No.1836/BCDFGISSSV/2014 dated 15.11.2014 passed by the first respondent against her son 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 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 first respondent as against the son https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

of the petitioner dated 15.11.2014 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.177, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XIII] Department dated 09.01.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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 True Copy Sub Assistant Registrar To 1.The Commissioner of Police, Chennai Police.

2.The Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.

3.The Public Prosecutor, High Court of Madras, Chennai 600 104.

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