Manjula v. The Secretary To Government

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 10.10.2023 CORAM :

THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.S. SUNDAR AND THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNDER MOHAN Manjula ... Petitioner Vs.

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

2.The Commissioner of Police/ Detaining Authority, Huzur Road, Coimbatore City, Coimbatore - 18.

3.The Superintendent of Police, Central Prison - Coimbatore, 4.State represented by its The Inspector of Police, E-2 Peelamedu Police Station,

... Respondents Prayer : Habeas Corpus Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, to call for the entire records, relating to the petitioner's son detention under Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982 vide detention order, dated 26.05.2023 on the file of the second respondent herein made in proceedings Memo C.No.46/G/IS/2023, quash the same as illegal and consequently direct the respondents herein to produce the petitioner's son namely M.Surya Prasanth @ Surya, S/o.Malesh, aged 23 years, before this High Court and set the petitioner's son at liberty from detention, now the petitioner's son detained at Central Prison, Coimbatore. For Petitioner : Mr.W.Camyles Gandhi For Respondents : Mr.E.Raj Thilak Additional Public Prosecutor

ORDER

[Order of the Court was made by S.S.SUNDAR, J.,] (1)The petitioner, mother of the detenu M.Surya Prasanth @ Surya, S/o.Malesh, aged 23 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the 2nd respondent dated 26.05.2023 slapped on her son, 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the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the son of the petitioner herein dated 26.05.2023 has been revoked by the Government. (3)Recording the submission of the learned Additional Public Prosecutor, this petition is closed as the same has become infructuous. [S.S.S.R., J.] [S.M, J.] 10.10.2023 mkn Internet : Yes

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

2.The Commissioner of Police/ Detaining Authority, Huzur Road, Coimbatore City, Coimbatore - 18.

3.The Superintendent of Police, Central Prison - Coimbatore, 4.The Inspector of Police, E-2 Peelamedu Police Station, 5.The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras.

S.S. SUNDAR, J., and SUNDER MOHAN, J., mkn 10.10.2023