IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED 22.03.2017 CORAM THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.NAGAMUTHU and THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE ANITA SUMANTH H.C.P No.2213 of 2016 Bhuvaneshwari .. Petitioner Vs
1. The Collector and District Magistrate, Erode District, Erode.
2. The Principal Secretary Secretary to Govt, Department of Cooperation, Food and Consumer Protection, Fort St.George, Chennai – 600 009.
2. The Commissioner of Police, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department Chepauk, Chennai – 600 005. .. Respondents Habeas Corpus Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to issue a writ of Habeas Corpus of any other writ of direction calling for the records leading to the detention of the petitioner's husband namely, Sampath @ Sampathkumar S/o Late Kulandaisamy, Male aged about 45 years is presently lodged in Central Prison, Coimbatore and has been detained under Act 14/82 as a “Goonda” vide detention order 03.09.2016 on the file of the 1st respondent herein, made in Cr.M.P.No.13/Black Marketeer/2016 C1, quash the same and consequently direct the respondents herein to produce the body and person of the said detenu before this Hon'ble Court and thereafter set him at liberty from the Central Prison, Coimbatore.
For Petitioner : Mr.R.Anbukarasu For respondents : Mr.V.M.R. Rajendran Additional Public Prosecutor ORDER (Order of the Court was made by S. NAGAMUTHU,J.,) The petitioner, who is the wife of the detenu Sampath @ Sampathkumar, S/o Late Kulandaisamy, aged 45 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the first respondent dated 03.09.2016 against her husband branding him as a "Goonda" under the Tamil Nadu 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the order of detention passed by the first respondent as against the husband of the petitioner dated 03.09.2016 has been revoked by the Government in G.O(Rt)No.390 Cooperation, Food and Consumer Protection (E1) Department dated 24.10.2016 and he has also produced a copy of the said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.
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1. The Collector and District Magistrate, Erode District, Erode.
2. The Principal Secretary Secretary to Govt, Department of Cooperation, Food and Consumer Protection, Fort St.George, Chennai – 600 009.
3. The Commissioner of Police, Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department Chepauk, Chennai – 600 005.
4. The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Chennai.
S.NAGAMUTHU,J.,
And
ANITA SUMANTH,J.,
sr/jer Order in H.C.P.No.2213 of 2016 22-03-2017