2023 Supreme(Online)(Mad) 90185
MADRAS HIGH COURT
Honourable Mr Justice M. NIRMAL KUMAR
M.SARASWATHI – Appellant
Versus
THE STATE OF TAMIL NADU, – Respondent
HCP/1317/2022
HCP No.1317 of 2022
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED : 01.02.2023
CORAM
THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.SUNDAR
and
THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.NIRMAL KUMAR
H.C.P.No.1317 of 2022
M.Saraswathi
..
Petitioner
Wife of Detenue
Vs.
1.
The State of Tamil Nadu
Rep. By its Secretary to Government
Home, Prohibition and Excise Department
Fort St. George, Chennai – 600 009
2.
The Commissioner of Police
Greater Chennai
The Commissioner of Police
Vepery, Chennai-600 007.
3.
The Inspector of Police
S-7 Madipakkam Police Station
Chennai
4.
The Superintendent of Central Prison
Central Prison II, Puzhal
Chennai - 66
..
Respondents
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Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying
for issuance of a writ of habeas corpus to call for the records relating to the
detention order in BCDFGISSS No.143/2022 dated 03.06.2022 passed by
the second respondent and set aside the same and direct the respondent No.4
to produce the petitioner's husband Manikandan @ Live Mani, son of
Muthukumar, aged 32 years, now confined at Central Prison, Puzhal at
Chennai before this Court.
For Petitioner
:
Mr.K.Karthik
For Respondents
:
Mr.R.Muniyapparaj
Additional Public Prosecutor
O R D E R
[Order of the Court was made by M.SUNDAR, J.,]
Captioned 'Habeas Corpus Petition' ['HCP'] has been filed in this
Court on 06.07.2022 assailing a 'detention order dated 03.06.2022 bearing
reference No.143/BCDFGISSSV/2022' made by the second respondent.
2. The 'detention order' shall be referred to as 'impugned detention
order' and 'second respondent' shall be referred to as 'Detaining Authority'
for the sake of convenience and clarity.
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3. To be noted, third respondent who is the jurisdictional Inspector of
Police is the Sponsoring Authority.
4. When the matter was taken up, Mr.K.Karthik, counsel on record for
petitioner and Mr.R.Muniyapparaj, learned State Additional Public
Prosecutor are before us. Both sides submit that there are multiple accused
in the ground case and preventive detention orders have been clamped
against all the accused. As many as 12 HCPs filed by other co-accused
have been allowed by this Court. The tabulation in this regard is as follows:
SI.No.
H.C.P.Number
Name of the
petitioner
Name of the
Detenu
Date of
order
allowing
HCP
1
HCP.No.709/ 2022
R.Manjula
Vignesh
@
Appu
01.11.2022
2
HCP No.710/2022
M.Sharmila
Bhuvaneswar@
Magesh
26.09.2022
3
HCP No.711/2022
G.Radha
Sanjai @ Ajai
26.09.2022
4
HCP No.714/2022
D.Sumathi
Naveen
@
Narambu
01.11.2022
5
HCP.No.742/2022
A.Lokeshwaran
Kishorekumar
@Kishore
01.11.2022
6
HCP.No.869/2022
Nirmala
Arun @Kebi
17.10.2022
7
HCP.No.1007/2022
Saranya
Murugesan
15.12.2022
8
HCP No.1096/2022
Menaka
Kutty@uma
Maheswaran
04.01.2023
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SI.No.
H.C.P.Number
Name of the
petitioner
Name of the
Detenu
Date of
order
allowing
HCP
9
HCP.No.1119/2022
Fathima
Ravi
@
Ramesh
23.12.2022
10
HCP No.1256/2022
P.Senthilkumar
Gauthaman
23.12.2022
11
HCP No.1326/2022
Kausalya
Sathishkumar
10.01.2023
12
HCP No.1139/2022
Raja
Arun Kumar @
Mannu Muttai,
17.10.2022
5. Both sides submit without any disputation or disagreement that the
impugned detention orders in all the aforesaid matters and the captioned
matter are identical i.e., ad verbatim the same, the trajectory the matters
have taken is also similar and the point/points on which the aforementioned
12 HCPs have been allowed is/are available to the petitioner in the
captioned HCP also. Therefore, we deem it appropriate to scan and
reproduce two of the aforementioned 12 orders, one order dated 01.11.2022
made in H.C.P.No.709 of 2022 and the other dated 26.09.2022 in
H.C.P.No.710 of 2022, which are as follows:
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