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 passed by the 2nd respondent in C.O.C.No.19/2022 dated 28.07.2022 against the petitioner''s son the detenu Viky @ Vignesh, aged 24 years, son of Selvaraj, now confined in Central Prison, Tiruchirapalli and set aside the same and direct the respondents to produce the detenu before this Hon''ble Court and set him at liberty.)

M. Sundar, J.,

1. Captioned ''Habeas Corpus Petition'' [''HCP'' for the sake of brevity] has been filed by father of detenu assailing a ''preventive detention order dated 28.07.2022 bearing reference C.O.C.No.19/2022'' [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 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, Sandoffe