[Order of the Court was made by S.NAGAMUTHU, J.] Challenge is made to the order of detention passed by the second respondent vide Proceedings in No.752/BCDFGISSSV/2016 dated 20.07.2016, whereby the detenu, namely Surendran, S/o.Gunasekaran, aged about 25 years, was ordered to be detained under GOONDA as contemplated Section 2(f) of the 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that the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against the wife of the petitioner dated 20.07.2016 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. Rt. No.4852 HOME, PROHIBITION & EXCISE (X) DEPARTMENT, dated 06.10.2016 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.
3. Recording the submission of the learned Additional Public Prosecutor, this petition is dismissed as infructuous.
jbm/pam [S.N.,J.] [A.S.M.J.,] 07.03.2017 To
1. The Secretary to the Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai – 600 009.
2. Commissioner of Police, Greater Chennai.
3. The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Madras.
S.NAGAMUTHU,J.
and ANITA SUMANTH J.
(jbm/pam)
H.C.P.No.1701/2016
07.03.2017