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 relating to the impugned order No.512/BCDFGISSSV/2024 dated 15.05.2024 on the file of the 2nd respondent herein and set aside the same as illegal and direct the respondents to produce namely Praveen Kumar @ Karukka Appu son of Sridhar, aged about 23 years, now confined at Central Prison, Puzhal, Chennai before this Court and set him at liberty.

The preventive detention order passed by the second respondent 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. The Government Order in G.O.(D).No.82, Home, Prohibition and Excise (XVI) Department dated 15.04.2024 has not been translated in the language known to the detenue and thus the detenue is deprived from making effective representation.

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 safegu