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.2232 of 2016 Thangavelu .. Petitioner Vs
1. The Secretary to Government, Prohibition & Excise Department, Secretariat, Fort St.George, Chennai – 9.
2. The Commissioner of Police/ Detaining Authority, Coimbatore City, Coimbatore.
3. The Inspector of Police, Law & Order, B-3, Variety Hall Police Station, Coimbatore City, Coimbatore. .. Respondents Habeas Corpus Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to call for the records relating to the order of detention against the petitioner in C.No.39/G/IS/2016, dated 01.10.2016 on the file of the 2nd respondent herein and quash the said order and issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus directing the respondents herein to produce the body of the petitioner's son namely T.Suresh Babu @ Suresh, S/o.Thangavelu, aged about 20 years, now confined at Central Prison,Borstal School, Pudukkottai before this Hon'ble Court and set him at liberty.
For Petitioner : Mr.G.Karthikeyan 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 father of the detenu T.Suresh Babu @ Suresh, S/o.Thangavelu, aged 20 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the second respondent dated 01.10.2016 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would submit that the order of detention passed by the second respondent as against his son dated 01.10.2016 has been revoked by the Government in G.O. [Rt] No.5937 Home, Prohibition & Excise [XII] Department dated 25.11.2016 and he has also produced a copy of the said order.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.
(S.N.J.,) (A.S.M.J.,) Speaking order/non-speaking order 14-03-2017 Index : Yes/no Internet : Yes/no sr/rna To
1. The Secretary, State of Tamil Nadu Prohibition & Excise Department, Secretariat, Fort St.George, Chennai – 9.
2. The Commissioner of Police Detaining Authority, Coimbatore City, Coimbatore.
3. The Inspector of Police, Law & Order, B-3, Variety Hall Police Station, Coimbatore City, Coimbatore.
4. The Public Prosecutor, High Court, Chennai.
S.NAGAMUTHU,J.
And
ANITA SUMANTH,J.,
sr/rna Order in H.C.P.No.2232 of 2016 14.03.2017 http://www.judis.nic.in