JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a writ of habeas corpus to call for the records in 102/BCDFGISSSV/2022 dated 23.08.2022 on the file of the 2nd respondent herein and set aside the same as illegal and produce the detenu Vijay @ Blacky Vijay, son of Venkatesan aged about 24 years, now confined at Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai before this Hon''ble Court and set him at liberty.)

M. Nirmal Kumar, J.

1. Captioned ''Habeas Corpus Petition'' [hereinafter ''HCP'' for the sake of convenience and brevity] has been filed by the mother of the detenu assailing a ''preventive detention order dated 23.08.2022 bearing reference No.102/BCDFGISSSV/2022'' [hereinafter ''impugned detention order'' for the sake of convenience]. To be noted, the fourth respondent is the sponsoring authority and the second respondent is the detaining authority as impugned detention order has been made by the second respondent.

2. Impugned detention order has been made under ''The Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Cyber law offenders, Drug-offenders, Forest-offenders, Goondas, Immoral traffic offenders, Sand-offenders, Sexual-o