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Madras High CourtHCP/2899/2019closed

Lakshmi v. State Rep By

2020-07-03Honourable Mr Justice D. Krishnakumar,Honourable Mr Justice M.M.Sundresh3 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED: 03.07.2020 Coram The Hon'ble Mr. Justice M.M.SUNDRESH and The Hon'ble Mr. Justice D.KRISHNAKUMAR H.C.P. No.2899 of 2019 Lakshmi ... Petitioner -vs1.The State Rep. by its Secretary to Government Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Fort St.George, Chennai - 600 009.

2.The District Collector and District Magistrate, Erode District, Erode.

... Respondents Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to issue a writ or order or direction particularly writ in a nature of writ of habeas corpus to call for the records in Cr.M.P.No.34/Goonda/2019/C1 dated 13.12.2019 on the file of the District Collector and District Magistrate, Erode District, Erode, the second respondent herein and quash the same as illegal and direct respondent to produce the detenu Raghu @ Mettur Raghu, aged about 40 years, now confined at Cenral Prison, Coimbatore, before this Court and set him at liberty. For Petitioner : Mr.S.Rajanikanth For Respondents : Mr.R.Prathap Kumar, Addl. Public Prosecutor

ORDER

[Order of the Court was made by M.M.SUNDRESH, J.] The petitioner challenges the impugned order of detention in Cr.M.P.No.34/Goonda/2019/C1 dated 13.12.2019 detaining her husband as "Goonda", as contemplated under Section 2(f) of the Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982.

2. The learned Additional Public Prosecutor reports that the order of detention passed against the detenu has been revoked by the Government by its order in G.O.Rt.No.585 Home, Prohibition and Excise (IX) Department, dated 04.02.2020 and he has also produced a copy of the Government Order. Recording the same, this Habeas Corpus Petition stands closed. -s/d- Assistant Registrar True Copy Sub-Assistant Registrar raa/mmi/ssm To 1.The Secretary to Government Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Fort St.George, Chennai - 600 009.

2.The District Collector and District Magistrate, Erode District, Erode.

3.The Superintendent, Central Prison, Coimbatore.

4.The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras.

5. The Joint Secretary to Government public Law & Order Fort St.George Chennai-9 H.C.P. No. 2899 of 2019 mp(co) aa30/07/2020