Kalavathy v.

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.3538 of 2014 Kalavathi ... Petitioner -v1.The Government of Tamil Nadu, rep. By Secretary, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Fort St. George, Chennai-9 2.The Commissioner of Police, Chennai Police, Office of the Commissioner of Police, Vepery, Chennai-600 007.

... Respondents Habeas Corpus Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for the issuance of a writ of Habeas Corpus directing the detaining authority to produce the detenu, the petitioner's son Baskar, S/o.Janikaraman, aged about 25 years, a resident of No.2, Karuneegar Street, Nerkundram, Chennai-600 107, in the matter of detention order Act 14 of 1982 after having been declared as a Goonda by preventive detention order dated 15.11.2014 in BDFGISSV No.1838 of 2014 and presently confined at the Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai and to quash the same and to set aside the same and to set the detenu at liberty. For Petitioner :

Mr.A.Shiv Kumar 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 Baskar, S/o.Janikaraman, aged about 25 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order in BDFGISSV No.1838 of 2014 dated 15.11.2014 passed by the second 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 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

that the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the son of the petitioner dated 15.11.2014 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.178, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XIII] Department dated 09.01.2015 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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 vga To 1.The Secretary, Government of Tamil Nadu, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Fort St. George, Chennai-9 2.The Commissioner of Police, Chennai Police, Office of the Commissioner of Police, Vepery, Chennai-600 007.

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

H.C.P. No.3538 of 2014 KM(CO) Eu 23.06.15 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/