Madras High CourtHCP(MD)/56/2022closed

Mathan v. The Additional Chief Secretary To Giovernment

2022-07-07Honourable Mr Justice P. N. Prakash,Honourable Mrs Justice R. Hemalatha4 pages

BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT DATED : 07.07.2022

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE P.N.PRAKASH and THE HONOURABLE MRS.JUSTICE R.HEMALATHA Mathan ... Petitioner -vs1.State of Tamil Nadu Rep.by the Additional Chief Secretary to Government Home, Prohibition and Excise Department Secretariat, Chennai-600 009 2.The District Collector and District Magistrate Thoothukudi District Thoothukudi 3.The Superintendent of Prison Central Prison Palayamkottai Tirunelveli ... Respondents PRAYER: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to issue a writ of Habeas Corpus to call for the entire records in detention order in H.S.(M) Confdl.No.175/2021, dated 07.12.2021, on the file of the second respondent and quash the same and direct the respondents

herein to produce the body of the petitioner Mathan, aged about 22 years, son of Mariselvam, now confined in Central Prison, Palayamkottai, before this Court and set him at liberty forthwith. For Petitioner :

Mr.N.Pragalathan For Respondents :

Mr.A.Thiruvadi Kumar Additional Public Prosecutor

O R D E R

[Order of the Court was made by P.N.PRAKASH, J.] It is submitted by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor that the detention order, passed in H.S.(M) Confdl.No.175/2021, dated 07.12.2021, by the second respondent, has been revoked by the Advisory Board vide G.O.Rt.No.1325, Home, Prohibition and Excise (XII) Department, dated 14.03.2022.

2. Recording the same, the habeas corpus petition is closed. [P.N.P., J.] [R.H., J.] 07.07.2022 Index :

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To:

1.The Additional Chief Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, State of Tamil Nadu, Secretariat, Chennai-600 009.

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

3.The Superintendent of Prison, Central Prison, Palayamkottai, Tirunelveli.

4.The Additional Public Prosecutor, Madurai Bench of Madras High Court, Madurai.

P.N.PRAKASH , J.

and R.HEMALATHA, J.

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