JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a writ order or direction in the nature of WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS, call for the records relating to the detention order passed by the second respondent in Proceedings C3/D.O./03/2023 dated 20.03.2023 against the petitioner''s Aunty Selvi.Megarunisha, D/o.Abdul Subhan aged 67 years, who is now confined at Special Prison for Women, Vellore and set aside the same and direct the respondents to produce her before this Court and set her at liberty.)

M. Sundar, J.

1. Captioned ''Habeas Corpus Petition'' [''HCP'' for the sake of brevity] has been filed by niece of the detenu assailing a ''preventive detention order dated 20.03.2023 bearing reference No.C3/D.O./03/2023'' [hereinafter ''impugned preventive detention order'' for the sake of convenience and brevity] made by second respondent (hereinafter ''detaining authority'' for the sake of convenience). To be noted, fifth respondent is the sponsoring authority.

2. Impugned preventive detention order has been made under ''The Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Cyber law offenders, Drug-offenders, Forest-offenders, G