Indira v. The Secretary Home Prohibition And Excise Dept Ch

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 05.02.2019

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.SATHYANARAYANAN and THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.NIRMAL KUMAR H.C.P.No.2358/2018 Indira ..

Petitioner vs.

1.State of Tamil Nadu rep.by the Secretary, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department Fort St George, Chennai 600 009.

2.The Commissioner of Police Greater Chennai, Vepery, Chennai 600 009.

.. Respondents Prayer : Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a writ of habeas corpus calling for the records relating to the detention order in Memo No.881/BCDFGISSSV/2018 dated 24.09.2018 passed by the 2nd respondent under the Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982 and set aside the same and direct the respondent to produce the petitioner's husband Thiru Loganathan @ Keerai Prabhu, S/o.Radhakrishnan, aged about 36 years the detenu, now confined in the Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai before this Court and set the petitioner's husband Loganathan @ Keerai Prabhu, S/o.Radhakrishnan, aged about 36 years the detenu, herein at liberty.

For Petitioner .. Mr.R.Muthukumar For Respondents.. Mr.C.Iyyappa Raj, APP

ORDER

(Order of the Court was made by M.SATHYANARAYANAN, J) Petitioner, wife of the detenu herein, viz., Loganathan @ Keerai Prabhu, aged about 36 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the second respondent dated 24.09.2018 against her husband branding him as a "Goonda" under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest Offenders, https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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of detention passed by the second respondent as against the husband of the petitioner herein dated 24.09.2018, has been revoked by the Government in G.O.Rt.No.5282, Home, Prohibition & Excise [X] Department dated 03.12.2018 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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.

s/d- Assistant Registrar(CO) True Copy Sub-Assistant Registrar AP To 1.The Secretary,State of Tamil Nadu Home, Prohibition and Excise Department Fort St George, Chennai 600 009.

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

3.The Public Prosecutor, Madras High Court, Madras. 4.The Superintendent, Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai.

5. The Joint Secretary to Government Public (law and order) Fort. St. George Chennai 9.

H.C.P.No.2358/2018 GP(CO) SP(04/03/2019) https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/