JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a writ of habeas corpus calling for the records in Detention Order in C.No.49/G/IS/2022 dated 03.08.2022 on the file of the second respondent and set aside the same and direct the respondents herein to produce the body of the son of the petitioner/detenu G.Manikandan @ Gundu Manikandan S/o.Gopal aged about 44 years now confined in Central Prison at Coimbatore before this Court and set him at liberty.)

M. Sundar, J.

1. Captioned ''Habeas Corpus Petition'' [''HCP'' for the sake of brevity] has been filed by the mother of detenu assailing a ''preventive detention order dated 03.08.2022 bearing reference C.No.49/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 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-offe