CHENNAI: Former MLA B Ranganathan, detained under the Goondas Act, has moved the Madras High Court challengingh his detention.A division bench comprising Justice C Nagappan and Justice M Sathyanarayanan, before which the habeas corpus writ petition came up for hearing today, admitted it and ordered notice to the authorities concerned returnable in four weeks.His prayer was to quash an order dated August 8 this year of the Police Commissioner detaining him under the Goondas Act.Following a complaint from the legal heirs of Kirubai Nayagam relating to land dispute, Ranganathan was arrested and remanded in judicial custody on August 3. He was detained under the Goonds Act on August 8.Petitioner contended that there were long standing civil disputes over the property in question and the matter was pending before the civil court. The matter went to the Supreme Court, which had ordered status-quo. The detention order was passed mechanically without application of mind, he contended.
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