(Order of the Court was made by M. JAICHANDREN, J)

This Habeas Corpus Petition has been filed to call for the records relating to the order of the second respondent, dated 11.09.2012, made in No.120/BDFGISSV/2012, and quash the same, and to produce the detenu, namely, M.Ramkumar alias Pulidurai alias Pulipandi, son of Mani alias Karuppasamy, aged about 24 years, confined in the Central Prison, Palayamkottai, before this Court and to set him at liberty.

2. The petitioner has stated that the second respondent had passed the impugned detention order, dated 11.09.2012, under sub-section (1) of Section 3 of the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug- offenders, Forest-offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders, Sand Offenders, Slum-grabbers and Video Pirates Act,1982. (Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982), read with the orders issued by the State Government, in G.O.(D).No.118/Home, Prohibition and Excise (XVI) Department, dated 18.07.2012, under sub-section (2) of Section 3 of the said Act, directing the detention of M.Ramkumar alias Pulidurai alias Pulipandi, in the Central Prison, Palayamkottai, terming him as a 'Goonda'.

3. Even though various grounds had been