Abdullah v. The State of Tamil Nadu

Madras HC14 Nov 2025HCP(MD)/518/2025

Case brief

AI extract

What is this about?

Habeas corpus; preventive detention; GOONDA; detention order Cr.M.P.No. 19/2025; revocation G.O.Rt.No.2776 dated 19.05.2025; Central Prison Trichy; Somarasampettai Police Station; Article 226 Constitution of India; petition closed as detention revoked; Madurai Bench of Madras High Court; C.V.Karthikeyan and R.Vijayakumar JJ.; decided 14.11.2025.

What did the court decide?

No substantive relief adjudicated; the Habeas Corpus Petition was closed after recording that the detention order stood revoked by G.O.Rt.No.2776 dated 19.05.2025. ¶¶24

Abdullah Vs The State of Tamil Nadu — Writ and Judicial Review | Madras HC (2025)

¶1

H.C.P(MD)No.518 of 2025

¶2

BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT

¶3

DATED : 14.11.2025

¶4

CORAM:

¶5

THE HONOURABLE Mr.JUSTICE C.V.KARTHIKEYAN and THE HON'BLE Mr.JUSTICE R.VIJAYAKUMAR

¶6

H.C.P.(MD) No.518 of 2025

Abdullah

... Petitioner

The State of Tamil Nadu, Rep By, The Principal Secretary to the Government, Home, Prohibition and Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai - 9.

¶11

The District Collector and District Magistrate, Trichy District, Trichy.

¶12

The Superintendent of Prison, Central Prison, Trichy.

¶13

The Inspector of Police, Somarasampettai Police Station, Trichy. ... Respondents

¶14

PRAYER :-Habeas corpus Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to issue a Writ of Habeas corpus, calling for the records relating to the impugned order of detention made in Cr.M.P.No. 19/2025 on the file of the 2^nd respondent herein, branding the petitioner's son/detenu by name Seeni Mohammed, S/o.Abdullah, aged about 45

¶15

¶16

https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis

¶17

H.C.P(MD)No.518 of 2025

¶18

years as GOONDA, who is now confined in Central Prison, Trichy and quash the impugned order of detention and set the petitioner's son at liberty by producing him before this Court.

¶19

For Petitioner : Mr.T.J.Ebenezer Charles

¶20

For Respondents : Mr.A.Thiruvadikumar

¶21

Additional Public Prosecutor

¶22

O R D E R

¶23

(Order of the Court was made by C.V.KARTHIKEYAN,J.)

¶24

When the matter is taken up for hearing, the learned counsel for the petitioner as well as the learned Additional Public Prosecutor, by producing a proceeding in G.O.Rt.No.2776, Home, Prohibition and Excise (XII) Department, dated 19.05.2025 submitted that the detention order has already been revoked. Recording the said submission, this Habeas Corpus Petition is closed.

¶25

(C.V.K., J.) (R.V., J.) 14.11.2025 Index : Yes / No NCC : Yes / No vsm

¶26

2/4

¶27

https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis

¶28

H.C.P(MD)No.518 of 2025

¶29

¶30