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 pertaining to the order of detention dated 08.08.2022 passed by the 2nd respondent in C.M.P.No.21/GOONDA/2022 (M1) and quash the same and produce the Karpoorapriyan @ Sri Karpoorapriyan aged about 20 years, has been detained as Goonda in C.M.P.No.21/GOONDA/2022 (M1), detained at Central Prison, Salem before this Hon''ble Court and set him at liberty.)

N. Anand Venkatesh, J.

1. Captioned ''Habeas Corpus Petition'' [''HCP'' for the sake of brevity] has been filed by mother of detenu assailing a ''preventive detention order dated 08.08.2022 bearing reference C.M.P.No.21/GOONDA/2022(M1)'' [hereinafter ''impugned detention order'' for the sake of convenience and brevity]. To be noted, fifth 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 under ''The Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Cyber law offenders, Drug-offenders, Forest-offenders, Goondas, Immoral traffic offen