The Madras High Court on Wednesday dismissed a writ petition filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member S. Amar Prasad’s wife to restrain the Tambaram Commissioner of Police from invoking the Goondas Act against her husband who had been arrested in multliple criminal cases.
Justice G. Jayachandran dismissed the petition as premature after recording the statement of State Public Prosecutor (SPP) Hasan Mohamed Jinnah that as of now the Tambaram police had no proposal to detain the petitioner’s husband under any preventive detention law.
The SPP also told the court that the writ petition was not maintainable at all since a litigant could not seek an order preventing the police officials from exercising their powers in accordance with law. He also cited a few Supreme Court as well as the High Court judgements on the issue.
