Advocates:
['m/s c mohan raj', '', 'K ASHOK KUMAR', 'PUBLIC PROSECUTOR']

In the High Court of Judicature at Madras

Dated: 18.03.2014

Coram :-

THE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE V.DHANAPALAN

and

THE HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE G.CHOCKALINGAM

Habeas Corpus Petition No.2291 of 2013

Mangamma

... Petitioner

-vs-

State Rep. by

1.

State of Tamil Nadu,

Rep. by Secretary of State,

Prohibition and Excise Dept.,

St.George Fort, Chennai-9.

2.

The Commissioner of Police,

Pantheon Road,

Egmore,Chennai-600 008.

... Respondents

Prayer: Writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India

is filed praying for issuance of a writ of Habeas Corpus, calling for

the records relating to the detention passed by the 2^nd respondent in

No.1001/BDFGISSV/2013 dated 14.09.2013, quash the same and direct the

respondents to produce the detenue Shanthi, W/o.Jayachandran, female

aged 41 years, now confined at the Special Prison for Women, Puzhal,

Chennai before this Hon'ble Court and set her at liberty.

For petitioner

:

Mr.C.Mohan Raj

For R1 & R2

:

Mr.P.Govindarajan

Addl. Public Prosecutor

J U D G M E N T

(Judgment of the Court was delivered by

V.Dhanapalan,J.,)

The petitioner is the mother of detenue. The detenue has been

branded as an "Immoral Traffic Offender" under the Tamil Nadu Act 14

of