Parameshwaran @ Banakathadi v. State Rep By
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED : 02.07.2024 CORAM :
THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE M.S.RAMESH AND THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNDER MOHAN Parameshwaran @ Bana Kathadi ... Petitioner/detenue Vs.
1.State Rep. by, The Additional Chief Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Government of Tamil Nadu, Fort St.George, Chennai - 600009 2.The Commissioner of Police, Greater Chennai 3.The Superintendent of Police, Central Prison - II, Puzhal, Chennai 4.The Inspector of Police (Crime), V-3, J.J.Nagar Police Station, Chennai ... Respondents Prayer : Habeas Corpus Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution
of India praying for the issuance of a Writ of Habeas Corpus, to call for the records pertaining to the order of detention dated 29.02.2024 passed by the 2nd respondent in No.147/BCDFGISSSV/2024 and quash the same as illegal and direct the respondent to produce the detenue Thiru.Parameshwaran @ Bana Kathadi, S/o.Purushothaman, aged about 24 years, now confined at Central Prison - II, Puzhal, Chennai before this Court and set him at liberty. For Petitioner :
Mr.S.Senthil Kumar For Respondents :
Mr.A.Gokulakrishnan Additional Public Prosecutor
ORDER
M.S.RAMESH , J.
and SUNDER MOHAN, J.
The petitioner herein is the detenu viz., Parameshwaran @ Bana Kathadi, S/o.Purushothaman, aged about 24 years, now confined at Central Prison - II, Puzhal, Chennai, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the second respondent dated 29.02.2024 slapped on him, branding him as "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submit that the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the petitioner, dated 29.02.2024 has been revoked by the Government in G.O.Rt.No.2264, Home, Prohibition and Excise (XIII) Department, dated 15.04.2024 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.
3.Recording the submission of the learned Additional Public Prosecutor, this petition is dismissed as the same has become infructuous. [M.S.R., J] [S.M., J] 02.07.2024 Anu Internet : Yes Index : Yes / No
M.S.RAMESH , J.
and SUNDER MOHAN, J.
Anu To 1.The Additional Chief Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Government of Tamil Nadu, Fort St.George, Chennai - 600009 2.The Commissioner of Police, Greater Chennai 3.The Superintendent of Police, Central Prison - II, Puzhal, Chennai 4.The Inspector of Police (Crime), V-3, J.J.Nagar Police Station, Chennai 5.The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras.
02.07.2024