P.Manogar v. The Secretary To Govt Hcp Ch

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 04.02.2019

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE Mr.JUSTICE M.SATHYANARAYANAN and THE HONOURABLE Mr.JUSTICE M.NIRMAL KUMAR H.C.P.No.2374 of 2018 P.Manogar ... Petitioner -Vs1.The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise (XVI) Department, Secretariat, Chennai - 600 009.

2.The District Collector-cum-District Magistrate, Office of the District Collector and District Magistrate, Vellore District, Vellore.

... Respondents PRAYER: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus, calling for the entire records connected with the detention order in No.C3/D.O.No.70/2018 dated 03.10.2018 on the file of the respondent No.2 and quash the same and direct the respondents to produce the body and person of the one named P.Margapandhu S/o.Pachaiyappan, aged about 29 years now confined at Central Prison, Vellore, before this Court and set him at liberty forthwith.

For Petitioner :

Mr.P.Muthamizh Selva Kumar For Respondents:

Mr.C.Iyyapparaj Additional Public Prosecutor

ORDER

[Order of the Court was made by M.SATHYANARAYANAN, J.] Petitioner, brother of the detenu herein, viz., P.Margapandhu S/o.Pachaiyappan, aged about 29 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the second respondent dated 03.10.2018 against his brother branding him as a "Goonda" under the Tamil Nadu https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/

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of detention passed by the second respondent as against the brother of the petitioner herein dated 03.10.2018, has been revoked by the Government in G.O.Rt.No.5294, Home, Prohibition & Excise [IX] Department dated 03.12.2018 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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.

Sd/- Assistant Registrar //True Copy// Sub Assistant Registrar ah To 1.The Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise (XVI) Department, Secretariat, Chennai - 600 009.

2.The District Collector-cum-District Magistrate, Office of the District Collector and District Magistrate, Vellore District, Vellore.

3.The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras.

4.The Superintendent, Central Prison, Vellore.

H.C.P.No.2374 of 2018 rk(co) nr 09/04/2019 https://hcservices.ecourts.gov.in/hcservices/