{"id":167643,"date":"2009-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/chandra-vs-state-of-tamil-nadu-on-18-april-2009"},"modified":"2018-02-02T12:58:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T07:28:23","slug":"chandra-vs-state-of-tamil-nadu-on-18-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/chandra-vs-state-of-tamil-nadu-on-18-april-2009","title":{"rendered":"Chandra vs State Of Tamil Nadu on 18 April, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Madras High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Chandra vs State Of Tamil Nadu on 18 April, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>       \n\n  \n\n  \n\n \n \n BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT\n\nDATED: 18\/04\/2009\n\nCORAM\nTHE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.CHOCKALINGAM\nand\nTHE HONOURABLE Ms.JUSTICE R.MALA\n\nHabeas Corpus Petition (MD) No.753 of 2008\n\nChandra\t\t\t\t\t.. Petitioner\n\nVs.\n\n1.State of Tamil Nadu, rep. by its\n Secretary to Government,\n Prohibition and Excise Department,\n Fort St. George, Chennai 600 009.\n\n2.The District Collector &amp; District Magistrate,\n Trichirapalli District, District.\t\t .. Respondents\n\n\t Petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for\nissuance of a writ of habeas corpus calling for the records relating to the\nDetention Order passed by the second respondent in Cr.M.P.No.33\/2008 dated\n14.08.2008 quash the same and direct the respondents to produce the body of the\ndetenu Paulraj son of Soundarapandiyan @ Sundarapandi (now detained at Central\nPrison, Trichy) before this Corut and set him at liberty.\n\n!For Petitioner \t... Mr.N.Anand Kumar\n^For Respondents\t... Mr.Daniel Manohar\n\t\t\t    Addl.Public Prosecutor.\n\n:ORDER\n<\/pre>\n<p>\t   (Order of the Court was made by M.CHOCKALINGAM,J)<br \/>\n\tIn this writ application challenge is made to an order of the second<br \/>\nrespondent made in Cr.M.P.No.33\/2008 dated 14.08.2008 whereby husband of the<br \/>\npetitioner namely Paulraj was detained under the provisions of Dangerous<br \/>\nActivities of Boot-leggers, Drug offenders, Forest offenders, Goondas, Immoral<br \/>\nTraffic offenders, Sand offenders, Slum Grabbers and Video Pirates Act, 1982<br \/>\n(Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982) (hereinafter referred as the Act) terming him as a<br \/>\n&#8216;Boot-legger&#8217; as defined under the provisions of the Act.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t2. The Court heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and also looked<br \/>\ninto all the materials available in particular the order under challenge.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t3. It is not in controversy that the detenu was involved in five adverse<br \/>\ncases namely Cr.No.58\/2007 under Section 4(1)(aa) TNP Act, 1937 on the file of<br \/>\nTiruverumbur PEW; Cr.No.450\/2007 under Section 4(1)(aa) TNP Act, 1937 on the<br \/>\nfile of Tiruverumbur PEW; Cr.No.19\/2008 under Section 4(1)(aa) TNP Act 1937, on<br \/>\nthe file of Samayapuram Police Station; Cr.No.228\/2008 under Section 4(1)(aaa)<br \/>\nTNP Act, 1937 on the file of Tiruverumbur PEW; Cr.No.1170\/2008 under Section<br \/>\n4(1)(a) r\/w 4(1-A) 1937 on the file of Tiruverambur PEW and he was also involved<br \/>\nin one ground case in Cr.No.329\/2008 under Section 4(1)(i), 4(1)(aaa) r\/w 4(1-A)<br \/>\nTNP Act, 1937. He was found in possession of illicit arrack on 27.07.2008 at<br \/>\n16.00 hrs. Now, on scrutiny of the materials made available by the sponsoring<br \/>\nauthority, the detaining authority recorded his subjective satisfaction that the<br \/>\nactivities of the detenu were prejudicial to the maintenance of the Public order<br \/>\nand Public Health and he has to be termed as Boot-legger and accordingly made<br \/>\nthe order which is the subject matter of challenge before this Court.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t4. The order is assailed by the learned counsel for the petitioner on two<br \/>\ngrounds. Firstly, as per the available materials, the ground case came to be<br \/>\nregistered at 17.30 hrs by the said police station on 27.07.2008. In the arrest<br \/>\ncard, the detenu was found to be in possession of illicit arrack at 16.00 hrs on<br \/>\n27.07.2008 and hence the arrest card should have have been prepared along with<br \/>\nthe recovery mahazar only on that time namely 16.00 hrs. But, the crime number<br \/>\nis also found in the arrest card. Thus, it is doubtful whether the arrest card<br \/>\nand the preparation of the recovery mahazar are preponed as actually taken place<br \/>\nat 16.00 hrs as found therein and hence the detaining authority should have<br \/>\ncalled for a clarification. But, failed to do so.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t5. Secondly, there was a delay in consideration of the representation. The<br \/>\nrepresentation was made on 16.09.2008 and remarks were called for on 17.09.2008,<br \/>\nbut the remarks were received only on 23.09.2008. Thus there was a delay of 5<br \/>\ndays. Apart from that, the Honourable Minister for (PWD &amp; Law) dealt with the<br \/>\nrepresentation on 24.09.2008 and a rejection letter was prepared only on<br \/>\n03.10.2008. There was a delay of 8 days. Thus, there was two spells of delay. On<br \/>\nboth the grounds, the order has got to be set aside.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t6. The Court heard the learned Additional Public Prosecutor and paid its<br \/>\nanxious consideration on the submissions made.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t7. As rightly pointed out by the learned counsel for the petitioner, in<br \/>\nthe considered opinion of the Court, the order has got to be set aside on both<br \/>\nthe grounds. So far as the ground case is concerned as per the materials<br \/>\navailable it could be seen that the detenu was found to be in possession of<br \/>\nillicit arrack and was arrested at 16.00 hrs on 27.07.2008 and hence the arrest<br \/>\ncard should have come into existence at that time but it contained the ground<br \/>\ncase crime number. But according to the materials available, the case came to be<br \/>\nregistered on 17.30 hrs. If to be so, the arrest card could not contain the<br \/>\ncrime number. But, it contained. Therefore, a clarification should have been<br \/>\ncalled for by the detaining authority from the sponsoring authority. But, failed<br \/>\nto do so. Apart from this, as rightly pointed out by the learned counsel for the<br \/>\npetitioner, there was a delay in considering the representation. From the<br \/>\nproforma placed on record it could be seen that the representation was sent on<br \/>\n09.09.2008; representation received on 16.09.2008; remarks were called for on<br \/>\n17.09.2008 and the remarks were received only on 23.09.2008. There was 5 days<br \/>\ndelay. The learned Additional Public Prosecutor would submit that there was two<br \/>\nintervening holidays. Thus there was remaining 3 days delay. The Honourable<br \/>\nMinister for (PWD &amp; Law) dealt with the representation on 24.09.2008 and<br \/>\nrejection letter prepared only on 03.10.2008. There was 8 days delay. The<br \/>\nlearned Additional Public Prosecutor would submit that there was four<br \/>\nintervening holidays. Thus there was remaining 4 days delay. The said two spells<br \/>\nof delay remain unexplained. The above said two grounds, in the considered<br \/>\nopinion of the Court would  suffice to set aside the order under challenge.<br \/>\nHence, this Court has to make the order undone by upsetting the same.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t8. Accordingly, the Habeas Corpus Petition is allowed and the detention<br \/>\norder in Cr.M.P.No.33\/2008 dated 14.08.2008 passed by the second respondent is<br \/>\nquashed. The detenu is directed to be set at liberty forthwith unless his<br \/>\npresence, in accordance with law, is required in connection with any other case.\n<\/p>\n<p>jikr\/sj<\/p>\n<p>To:\n<\/p>\n<p>1.The Secretary to Government,<br \/>\n  The State of Tamilnadu,<br \/>\n Prohibition and Excise Department,<br \/>\n Fort St. George, Chennai 600 009.\n<\/p>\n<p>2.The District Collector &amp; District Magistrate,<br \/>\n Trichirapalli District, District.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. The Superintendent of Central Prison, Tiruchirappalli.\n<\/p>\n<p>4. The Joint Secretary to Government,<br \/>\n  The State of Tamilnadu,<br \/>\n Public (law and order) Dept.,<br \/>\n Fort St. George, Chennai 600 009.\n<\/p>\n<p>5. THE PUBLIC PROSECSUTOR<br \/>\n\tMADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT MADURAI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madras High Court Chandra vs State Of Tamil Nadu on 18 April, 2009 BEFORE THE MADURAI BENCH OF MADRAS HIGH COURT DATED: 18\/04\/2009 CORAM THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE M.CHOCKALINGAM and THE HONOURABLE Ms.JUSTICE R.MALA Habeas Corpus Petition (MD) No.753 of 2008 Chandra .. 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