Ramadevan v. The Additional Chief Secretary To Government

BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT DATED : 31.07.2024

CORAM:

THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE A.D.JAGADISH CHANDIRA and THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE K.RAJASEKAR Ramdevan (Now confining at Palayamkottai Central Prison) ... Petitioner -vs1.The Additional Chief Secretary to Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai-600 009.

2.The District Magistrate and District Collector, Office of the District Magistrate and District Collector, Thoothukudi District, Thoothukudi.

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

... 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, connected with the detention order of the second respondent in H.S(M)Confdl.No.54/2024, dated 17.05.2024 and quash the same and direct the respondents to produce the body or person of the detenu by name Ramdevan, son of Kanthaiah, aged about 22 years, now detained as "Drug Offender" at Palayamkottai Central Prison before this Court and set him at liberty forthwith. For Petitioner :

Mr.R.Alagumani For Respondents :

Mr.A.Thiruvadi Kumar Additional Public Prosecutor

O R D E R

[Order of the Court was made by A.D.JAGADISH CHANDIRA, J.] It is submitted by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor that the detention order, passed in H.S(M)Confdl.No.54/2024, dated 17.05.2024, by the second respondent, has been revoked by the Advisory Board vide G.O.Rt.No.4193, Home, Prohibition and Excise (XII) Department, dated 28.06.2024.

2. Recording the same, the habeas corpus petition is closed. [A.D.J.C., J.] [K.R.S., J.] 31.07.2024 NCC : Yes / No Index : Yes / No Internet : Yes / No am To:

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

2.The District Magistrate and District Collector, Office of the District Magistrate and District Collector, Thoothukudi District, Thoothukudi.

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

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

A.D.JAGADISH CHANDIRA, J.

AND K.RAJASEKAR, J.

am 31.07.2024