Ullangi Kameswaramma v. the State of Andhra Pradesh
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: habeas corpus; Article 226 Constitution of India; writ petition dismissed as infructuous; completion/expiry of period of detention; preventive detention order G.0.RT.N0.581 dated 13.06.2025; confirmation G.O.Rt.No. 930 dated 26.08.2025 Revenue (Excise-II) Department Andhra Pradesh; Central Prison Visakhapatnam; Ullangi Prakash Rao; petitioner wife Ullangi Kameswaramma; High Court of Andhra Pradesh at Amaravati; order per Ravi Nath Tilhari, J. with Purushottam Kumar Chintalapudi, J.; detention legality left unadjudicated; no costs; miscellaneous petitions closed. Useful for: cases where habeas corpus/detention-challenge petitions were disposed of solely on ground of lapse of detention period without merits being examined.
What did the court decide?
On learned counsel for the petitioner submitting that the period of detention under the impugned order had already completed and the petition had become infructuous, the Court recorded the submission and dismissed the Writ Petition as infructuous, making no order as to costs; the legality or otherwise of the detention itself was not adjudicated.