JUDGMENT :

B. Pugalendhi, J.

(Prayer: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, to issue a writ of habeas corpus, calling for the entire records connected with the detention order of the respondent No.2 in P.D.No.02 of 2021 dated 02.02.2021 and quash the same and direct the respondents to produce the body or person of the detenu by name Thangadurai son of Ramasamy aged about 37 years, now detained as Goonda in Trichy Central Prison before this Court and set him liberty forthwith.)

1. The Habeas Corpus Petition has been filed by the brother of the detenu Thangadurai, S/O, Ramasamy, aged about 37 years, who has been branded as “Goonda” by the second respondent in Detention Order P.D.No.02 of 2021, dated 02.02.2021, as contemplated under Section 2(f) of the Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982.

2. A perusal of the grounds of detention dated 02.02.2021, passed by the second respondent herein would disclose that the detenu Thangadurai came to the adverse notice in the following cases.

3. The grounds on which the detenu was detained are that based on the intimation received from the Government Medical College Hospital, Pudukottai, on 10.01.2021 around 03.00 hours, one Kanagaraj, Sub Inspector of Police, Adanakkottai Police station rushed to the said hospital and recorded the statement from the complainant, who was admitted as inpatient. The complainant has stated that he is a resident of Valavampatti, Gandarvakkottai Taluk, Pudukottai District. When he along with his uncle were travelling in a two wheeler bearing Registration No. TN 55 AA 5649 near one Vinayaga cashew factory on Pudukkottai to Thanjavur National Highways, the detenu and three others waylaid them, stabbed them with sickle and attacked them with wooden log and iron rod with an intention to kill them. When the complainant blocked the attack from the them, he sustained severe cut injury on his right hand, right thumb and on his head and they have attacked his uncle also on the instigation of i) Bombay Saravanan, S/o.Panneer Selvam, ii) Siva, son of Panneerselvam, iii) Arunprasath, S/o. Thambidurai, iv) Jagadeesan, son of Arjunan of Aravampatti village and after attacking the complainant and his uncle, they have fled from the place of occurrence and based on the statement a case in crime No.10 of 2021 has been registered on the file of the Adanakkottai Police Station for the offence punishable under Sections 341 and 324 IPC r/w Sections 3(1)(r), 3(1)(s), 3(2)(Va) of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015. Subsequently, the detenu was arrested on 10.01.2021 at 15.00 hours near Ga