JUDGMENT

K.M. Natarajan, J. - This writ petition is filed by one Ram, wife of the detenu Ganesan, under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, seeking for the issuance of a Writ of Habeas Corpus quashing the order of detention passed by the District Magistrate and Collector of North Arcot Ambedkar District, Veil ore, the first respondent herein and set the detenu at liberty. The detenu come to the adverse notice as a forest offender in view of the single case referred to in the preamble of the grounds of detention and was detained on the basis of the ground case by the first respondent in exercise of the power conferred under Section 3(1) of the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Forest Offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders and slum Grabbers Act, 1982 (Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982), here in after referred to as the Act, with a view to preventing the detenu from acting in any manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order.

2. The facts which led to the passing of the impugned order are set out in detail in the grounds of detention which was duly served on the detenu, and in view of the plea taken in the writ petition, we do n