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Madras High CourtHCP/1317/2024dismissed as infructuous

Kalpana v. Home, Prohibition And Excise Department

2024-08-02Honourable Mr Justice M.S. Ramesh,Honourable Mr Justice Sunder Mohan5 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 02.08.2024 CORAM :

THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE M.S. RAMESH AND THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNDER MOHAN H.C.P.No.1317 of 2024 Kalpana ... Petitioner Vs.

State Rep. By:

1.The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Fort St.George, Chennai-9.

2.The District Collector and District Magistrate Vellore District 3.The Superintendent of Police, Vellore District,

4.The Superintendent of Prison, Central Prison, Salem.

5.The Inspector of Police, Gudiyatham Taluk Police Station, ... Respondents PRAYER: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to issue a writ of Habeas Corpus, to call for the records in CD/D.O.No.20/2024 dated 30.04.2024 on the file of the District Collector and District Magistrate, Vellore District, Vellore, the second respondent herein and quash the same as illegal and direct the respondent to produce the detenue Thiru.Manigandan, S/o.Palani, aged about 23 years, now confined at central prison, Salem, before this Hon'ble court and set him at liberty. For Petitioner : M/s.S.Sengkodi For Respondents : Mr.A.Gokulakrishnan, Additional Public Prosecutor

ORDER

(Order of the Court was made by M.S.RAMESH, J.) When the matter was taken up for hearing, the learned counsel for the petitioner, as well as the learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondents, by producing a copy of the Government Order in

G.O.Rt.No.3952, Home, Prohibition and Excise (IX) Department, dated 20.06.2024, submitted that the detention order has already been revoked.

2. Recording the said submission, this Habeas Corpus Petition stands dismissed as infructuous.

[M.S.R., J] [S.M., J] 02.08.2024 Index: Yes/No Tsg To 1.The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Fort St.George, Chennai-9.

2.The District Collector and District Magistrate Vellore District 3.The Superintendent of Police, Vellore District,

4.The Superintendent of Prison, Central Prison, Salem.

5.The Inspector of Police, Gudiyatham Taluk Police Station, 6.The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras.

M.S.RAMESH, J.

and SUNDER MOHAN, J.

Tsg H.C.P.No.1317 of 2024 02.08.2024