{"id":120901,"date":"2006-09-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sandanakumar-vs-the-secretary-to-government-on-19-september-2006"},"modified":"2015-12-20T09:10:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T03:40:25","slug":"sandanakumar-vs-the-secretary-to-government-on-19-september-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sandanakumar-vs-the-secretary-to-government-on-19-september-2006","title":{"rendered":"Sandanakumar vs The Secretary To Government on 19 September, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Sandanakumar vs The Secretary To Government on 19 September, 2006<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS\n\nDated:- 19.09.2006\n\nCoram:-\n\nThe HONOURABLE Mr. Justice P.SATHASIVAM\nand\nThe HONOURABLE Mr. Justice S.TAMILVANAN\n\nHabeas Corpus Petition No.811 of 2006\n\n\nSandanakumar\t                                ...  Petitioner\n\t\n\tVs.\n\n1.The  Secretary to Government,\n   Food and Consumer Protection Department,\n   Government of India,\n   New Delhi.\n\n2.The Secretary to Government,\n   Co-operation, Food and Consumer Protection\n   Department, Government of Tamil Nadu,\n   Fort St. George, Chennai-600 009.\n\n3.The District Collector and\n   District Magistrate,\n   Thoothukudi District,\n   Thoothukudi.\n\n4.The Inspector of Police,\n   Civil Supplies CID,\n   Tirunelveli.\t\t\t\t\t... Respondents\n\n\tPetition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for the issuance of a Writ of Habeas Corpus to   call for the records relating  to the third respondent, pertaining to the detention order made in P.A to DSO Confdl.2\/2006 dated 23.07.2006 in detaining the detenu under Prevention of Black Marketing and Maintenance of Supplies of Essential Commodities Act, 1980 (Central Act No.7 of 1980) as \"Black Marketer\" and quash the same and direct the respondents to produce the said detenu  namely, Shanmugaraj, son of Lakshmana Perumal aged about 28 years now detained at Central Prison, Palayamkottai, before this Court and set him at liberty.\n\n \tFor Petitioner\t: Mr.D.Veerasekaran\n\n\tFor Respondents\t: Mr.M.Babu Muthu Meeran\n\t                  Addl. Public Prosecutor\n\n\nO R D E R \n<\/pre>\n<p>(Order of the Court was made by P.SATHASIVAM,J.)\t<\/p>\n<p>\tLearned Additional Public Prosecutor appearing for  respondents  reports   that  the  detention  order  has  been  revoked  by  the  Government  in G.O.Ms.No.180 Co-operation, Food and Consumer Protection(E1) Department dated 11.09.2006 and hence, as on date nothing survives for adjudication in this Habeas Corpus Petition.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t2.  Recording the above statement, the petition is closed.\n<\/p>\n<p>raa<\/p>\n<p>To\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>1.The  Secretary to Government,<br \/>\nFood and Consumer Protection Department,<br \/>\nGovernment of India,<br \/>\nNew Delhi.\n<\/p>\n<p>2.The Secretary to Government,<br \/>\nCo-operation, Food and Consumer Protection Department,<br \/>\nGovernment of Tamil Nadu,<br \/>\nFort St. George,<br \/>\nChennai-600 009.\n<\/p>\n<p>3.The District Collector and District Magistrate,<br \/>\nThoothukudi District,<br \/>\nThoothukudi.\n<\/p>\n<p>4.The Inspector of Police,<br \/>\nCivil Supplies CID,<br \/>\nTirunelveli.\n<\/p>\n<p>5. The Joint Secretary to Government,<br \/>\nPublic (Law and Order)<br \/>\nFort St. George,<br \/>\nChennai-9.\n<\/p>\n<p>6. The Public Prosecutor,<br \/>\nHigh Court,<br \/>\nMadras.\n<\/p>\n<p>[PRV\/8065]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court Sandanakumar vs The Secretary To Government on 19 September, 2006 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS Dated:- 19.09.2006 Coram:- The HONOURABLE Mr. Justice P.SATHASIVAM and The HONOURABLE Mr. Justice S.TAMILVANAN Habeas Corpus Petition No.811 of 2006 Sandanakumar &#8230; Petitioner Vs. 1.The Secretary to Government, Food and Consumer Protection Department, Government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-madras-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sandanakumar vs The Secretary To Government on 19 September, 2006 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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