IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS DATED 14.03.2017 CORAM THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.NAGAMUTHU and THE HONOURABLE DR.JUSTICE ANITA SUMANTH H.C.P No.1808 2016 D. Anandan .. Petitioner Vs
1. The Secretary to the Government, Home Prohibition and Excise Dept., Secretariat, Chennai 600 009.
2. Commissioner of Police, Greater Chennai, Vepery, Chennai-600 007.
.. 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 upon the production of the records relating to the detention order dated 02.08.2016 made in detention Order BCDFGISSSV No.818/2016 passed by the second respondent herein and quash the same and direct the respondents to produce the body or person of the petitioner's son Sasidharan @ Sasi ,S/o Anandan, aged 24 years branded as Goonda an now confined in Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai before this Court and set him at liberty forthwith.
For Petitioner : Mr.S.Swamidoss Manokaran For respondents : Mr.V.M.R. Rajentren Addl. Public Prosecutor ORDER (Order of the Court was made by S. NAGAMUTHU,J.,) The petitioner, who is the son of the detenu Sasidharan @ Sasi S/o Anandan, aged 24 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the second respondent dated 02.08.2016 against his son 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would submit that the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against his son dated 02.08.2016 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.4645 Home, Prohibition & Excise [X] Department dated 28.09.2016 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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 Secretary, Home, State of Tamil Nadu, Home Prohibition and Excise Department, Fort St.Feorge, Chennai – 600 009.
2. Commissioner of Police, Greater Chennai, Vepery, Chennai-600 007.
3. The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Chennai.
S.NAGAMUTHU,J.
And
ANITA SUMANTH,J.,
sr Order in H.C.P.No.1808 2016 14.03.2017 http://www.judis.nic.in