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 of the 2nd respondent in his proceeding vide No.101/BCDFGISSSV/2022 dated 17.08.2022 to quash the same and consequently direct the respondents to produce the detenu Prabhakaran @ Prabha, male, aged 29 years, son of Sankar, now confined in Central Prison, Puzhal and set him at liberty forthwith.)

M. Sundar, J.

1. Captioned ''Habeas Corpus Petition'' [''HCP'' for the sake of brevity] has been filed by brother of detenu assailing a ''preventive detention order dated 17.08.2022 bearing reference 101/BCDFGISSSV/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 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 offenders, Sand-offenders, Sexual-offenders, Slum-grabbers and Video Pirat