LAWS(MAD)-2009-8-551

HARI PANDURANGAN Vs. STATE OF TAMIL NADU

Decided On August 27, 2009
HARI PANDURANGAN, KANDASAMY Appellant
V/S
STATE OF TAMIL NADU Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Challenging the detention order in C3.D.O. No. 42 of 2009 dated 28.5.2009 whereby detenu Maha @ Mahalingam has been branded; as 'Goonda', under the provisions of Tamil Nadu Prevention of Dangerous Activities of Bootleggers, Drug-offenders, Forest-offenders, Goondas, Immoral Traffic Offenders, Slum-grabbers and Video Pirates Act, 1982 (in short "Tamil Nadu Act 14 of 1982"), father of the detenu has filed this Habeas Corpus Petition.

(2.) Detenu has involved two adverse murder cases. First adverse case is Crime No. 454 of 2003 of Bagayam Police Station' under Section 302 IPC. In the first adverse case, detenu and his three associates viz., Bharath, Mutharasu and Ramesh Babu have allegedly committed murder of one Jilani @ Mamoo of Vellore and cut him into pieces and kept those pieces in three different bags and threw away in the railway track in Bagayam Police limit.

(3.) The second adverse case is Crime No. 26 of 2009 of Sathuvachari Police Station under Section 341, 324, 302 IPC. In the second adverse case detenu and his associate Bharat are alleged, to have committed murder of Sankar, brother of one Sooriya with whom detenu had grudge. Detenu is alleged to have indiscriminately inflicted cut injuries over the neck and throat of Shankar with knife.