Pandiselvi v. The Secretary To Government

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED: 06.06.2022 Coram The Honourable Mr. Justice S.VAIDYANATHAN and The Honourable Mr. Justice A.D.JAGADISH CHANDIRA H.C.P.No.2043 of 2021 Pandiselvi .. Petitioner/Wife of the detenue Vs.

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

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

3.The Superintendent of Police, Central Prison - Coimbatore, 4.State represented by The Inspector of Police, C-3, Saibaba Colony Police Station, .. Respondents Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to issue a writ of Habeas Corpus to call for the entire records relating to the petitioner's husband detention under Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982 vide detention order dated 18.11.2021 on the file of the second respondent herein made in proceedings Memo C.No.53/G/IS/2021, quash the same as illegal and consequently direct the respondents herein to produce the petitioner's husband viz., Jayaveeran, S/o.Karuthiveera Thevar, aged 53 years, before this Court and set the petitioner's husband at liberty from detention, now the petitioner's husband detained at the Central Prison, Coimbatore.

For Petitioner : Mr.W.Camyles Gandhi For Respondents : Mr.E.Raj Thilak Addl. Public Prosecutor

ORDER

S.VAIDYANATHAN, J.

AND A.D.JAGADISH CHANDIRA, J.

The petitioner challenges the impugned order of detention in Memo C.No.53/G/IS/2021 dated 18.11.2021 detaining her husband as "Drug Offender", as contemplated under Section 2(e) of the Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982.

The learned Additional Public Prosecutor reports that the order of detention passed against the detenu has been revoked by the Government by its order in G.O.Rt.No.1321, Home, Prohibition and Excise (XII) Department, dated 14.03.2022 and he has also produced a copy of the Government Order. Recording the same, this Habeas Corpus Petition stands closed.

Sd/- Assistant Registrar(CS-V) //True copy// Sub Assistant Registrar nsd To 1.The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Fort St.George, Chennai-600 009.

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

3.The Superintendent of Police, Central Prison - Coimbatore,

4.The Inspector of Police, C-3, Saibaba Colony Police Station, 5.The Joint Secretary to Government of Tamil Nadu, Public, Law and Order Department, Secretariat, Chennai - 9.

6.The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras.

H.C.P.No.2043 of 2021 VBM(CO) GMY(30/06/2022)