ORDER :

S.M. Subramaniam, J.

[PRAYER: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to issue a Writ of Habeas Corpus, to call for the records in C.M.P.No.01/Black Marketer/Salem City/2024 dated 01.04.2024 on the file of the Commissioner of Police, Salem City, the second respondent herein and quash the same as illegal and direct the respondent to produce the detenue, Thiru.Senthilkumar @ Ganja Senthilkumar, S/o. Chinnathambi, aged about 46 years, now confined at Central Prison Salem, before this Court and set at liberty.]

The preventive detention order passed by the second respondent dated 01.04.2024 is under challenge in the present Habeas Corpus Petition.

2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner, as well as the learned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for the respondents.

3. Page No.70 of the booklet served on the detenue is illegible. Thus, the detenue has been deprived of submitting representation in an effective manner.

4. In this context, it is useful to refer to the judgment of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in 'Powanammal Vs. State of Tamil Nadu' reported in '(1999) 2 SCC 413'. The Hon'ble Supreme Court, after discussing the safeguards embodied in Article 2