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 entire records, relating to the petitioner’s father detention under Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982 vide detention order dated 25.08.2022 on the file of the second respondent herein made in proceedings Memo C.No.54/G/IS/2022, quash the same as illegal and consequently, direct the respondents herein to produce the petitioner-s father namely N.Raja @ Karuppusamy, S/o.Nagaraj, aged 49 years before this Hon’ble High Court and set the petitioner-s father at liberty from detention, now the petitioner-s father detained at Central Prison, Coimbatore.)

N. Anand Venkatesh, J.

Captioned -Habeas Corpus Petition- [-HCP- for the sake of brevity] has been filed by son of detenu assailing a -preventive detention order dated 25.08.2022 bearing reference C.No.54/G/IS/2022- [hereinafter -impugned detention order- for the sake of convenience and brevity]. To be noted, fourth respondent is the sponsoring authority and second respondent is the detaining authority as the impugned detention order has been made by second respondent.

2. Impugned detention order has been made