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Muthulakshmi @ Esther v. The State Of Tamil Nadu

2016-08-26Honourable Mr Justice V. Bharathidasan,Honourable Mr Justice S. Nagamuthu2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 26.8.2016

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE S.NAGAMUTHU and THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE V.BHARATHIDASAN H.C.P.No.782 of 2016 Muthulakshmi @ Esther .. Petitioner vs.

1.The State of Tamil Nadu, Rep. by its Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St.George, Chennai-9.

2.The Commissioner of Police, Chennai Police, Vepery, Chennai.

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Respondents Prayer : Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a writ of habeas corpus calling for the entire records leading to the detention of the petitioner's husband Raj @ Rajkumar son of Sampath Kumar male aged about 38 years, presently lodged in Central Prison, Puzhal at Chennai and has been detained under Act 14/82 as a ''Goonda" vide detention order dated 19.03.2016 on the file of the 2nd respondent herein, made in Memo No.319/BCDFGISSSV/2016 and quash the same and consequently, direct the respondents herein to produce the body and person of the said detenu before this Court and thereafter, set him at liberty from the Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai.

For Petitioner .. Mr.T.V.Somasundaram For Respondents .. Mr.V.M.R.Rajentren, APP

ORDER

(Order of the Court was made by S.NAGAMUTHU, J.) The petitioner is the wife of the detenu. The detenu has been branded as a "Goonda" under the Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

and detained under the order of the 2nd respondent passed in Memo No.319/BCDFGISSSV/2016 dated 19.03.2016.

2.The learned Additional Public Prosecutor would submit that the order of detention passed by the 2nd respondent as against the husband of the petitioner dated 19.03.2016 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.2245, Home, Prohibition & Excise [XIII] Department dated 18.05.2016 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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(CS II) //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar To 1.The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St.George, Chennai-9.

2.The Commissioner of Police, Chennai Police, Vepery, Chennai 600 007.

3. The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras.

4. The Superintendent, Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai.

H.C.P.No.782 of 2016 ala co kra 14.09.2016 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/