V. Dhanapalan, J.

1. This Writ Petition is a Public Interest Litigation praying for a direction to the respondent to constitute a Special Bench for deciding the Habeas Corpus Petitions challenging the preventive detention under the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug Offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders and Slum-Grabbers Act, 1982 (Act 14 of 1982).

2. The petitioner is the Director of Prisoners Rights Forum, Chennai, which is a registered public Trust vide Registration No.4319/2008. The objects of the Trust are to create law awareness among the prisoners and to help them enforce their human rights, constitutional rights and legal rights.

3. A Division Bench of this Court, on 05.06.2014 heard W.P.No.9401 of 2014, a Public Interest Litigation filed by the Prisoners' Right Forum for issuance of a writ of mandamus directing that a judicial inquiry be instituted into the attack of about 500 prisoners inside Central Prison II, Puzhal, Chennai occurred on 24th March 2014 and further directing initiation of appropriate departmental action against all those prison officials, who were responsible for the said attack on the prisoners, and res