Pushpa v. State Rep by
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What is this about?
Petitioner filed a writ petition seeking habeas corpus to produce her husband detained as a Goonda and quash the detention order. Court closed the petition as infructuous because the additional public prosecutor produced an order revoking the detention. No substantive decision on detention validity was made.
What did the court decide?
Petition closed as infructuous due to revocation of detention order; no specific order granted.
What the court decided
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED : 06.08.2014
CORAM:
THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE S.RAJESWARAN
and
THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE P.N.PRAKASH
H.C.P.No.488 of 2014
Pushpa .. Petitioner
vs.
The State rep. By
1.The Secretary to Government,
Home Prohibition and Excise Department,
Secretariat, Chennai – 9.
2.The Commissioner of Police,
Poonamallee High Road,
Vepery, Chennai – 600 007. .. Respondents
Prayer : Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a writ of habeas corpus calling upon the production of the records relating to the detention order dated 17.01.2014 made in detention order Memo No.101/BDFGISSV/2014 passed by the second respondent herein quash the same and direct the respondents to produce the body or person of the petitioner's husband Muralidharan Son of Gunasekaran aged about 33 years branded as Goonda and now confined in Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai before this Court and set him at liberty forthwith.
For Petitioner .. Mr.K.Ashok Kumar For Respondents .. Mr.P.Govindarajan,APP ORDER (Order of the Court was made by S.RAJESWARAN, J.)
The petitioner, who is the wife of the detenu Muralidharan Son of Gunasekaran aged about 33 years, has come forward with this petition challenging the detention order passed by the second respondent dated 17.01.2014 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
Issues for consideration
1 issue framed by the court
Whether this petition for habeas corpus should be decided given that the detention order was revoked by the Government.
Parties & counsel
- petitioner
Pushpa
- respondent
The State represented by The Secretary to Government, Home Prohibition and Excise Department
- respondent
The Commissioner of Police, Poonamallee High Road
Coram
Case details
As recorded by the court registry
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