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M.Viji @ Petchiammal v. The State of Tamilnadu

Madras HC5 Jan 2026HCP(MD)/670/2025

Case brief

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What is this about?

Keywords: habeas corpus; H.C.P.(MD); preventive detention; M.H.S. Confdl. No.52 of 2025 dated 07.05.2025; revocation of detention order; Advisory Board; G.O.Rt.No.3691 dated 23.06.2025; District Collector and District Magistrate Tirunelveli; Central Prison Palayamkottai; detenu Maharajan; petitioner M.Viji @ Petchiammal; Article 226 writ petition closure; Home, Prohibition and Excise Department; Madras High Court Madurai Bench; petition closed on revocation of detention; 2026.

What did the court decide?

None adjudicated; the petition was closed because the challenged detention order had already been revoked by the Advisory Board vide G.O.Rt.No.3691, dated 23.06.2025. ¶25

M.Viji @ Petchiammal Vs The State of Tamilnadu — Writ and Judicial Review | Madras HC (2026)

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H.C.P.(MD)No.670 of 2025

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BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT

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DATED : 05.01.2026

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CORAM:

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THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE G.K.ILANTHIRAIYAN and THE HONOURABLE MS.JUSTICE R.POORNIMA

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H.C.P.(MD)No.670 of 2025

M.Viji @ Petchiammal

... Petitioner

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The Additional Chief Secretary to Government Home, Prohibition, Excise Department, Secretariat, Chennai- 600 009.

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The District Collector and District Magistrate Tirunelveli District Tirunelveli

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The Superintendent of Prison Central Prison, Palayamkottaim Tirunelveli ... Respondents

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PRAYER: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus, calling for the entire records connected with the detention order passed in M.H.S. Confdl. No.52 of 2025 dated 07.05.2025 on the file of the second respondent herein and quash the same and direct the respondents to produce the detenu or

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body of the detenu namely the petitioner’s husband i.e., Maharajan, aged about 34 years, S/o.Murugan, now detained at the Central Prison, Palayamkottai before this Court and set him at liberty forthwith.

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For Petitioner : Mr.N.Pragalathan

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For Respondents : Mr.T.Senthil Kumar

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Additional Public Prosecutor

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O R D E R

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(Order of the Court was made by G.K.ILANTHIRAIYAN , J. )

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It is submitted by the learned Additional Public Prosecutor that

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the detention order, passed in M.H.S. Confdl. No.52 of 2025 dated 07.05.2025 by the second respondent, has been revoked by the Advisory Board vide G.O.Rt.No.3691, dated 23.06.2025

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2. Recording the same, the habeas corpus petition is closed.

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[G.K.I., J.] [R.P., J.] 05.01.2026

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