On suspicion, the petitioner and his companytraveller Radhakrishnan Prabhakaran were intercepted and on search 102 mobile phones were detected from the baggage of the petitioner alone and from the baggage of his companytraveller 92 mobile phones were detected.
The Petitioner was an Assistant Public Relation Officer attached to the Department of Tourism under the Government of Tamil Nadu.
This Writ Petition is filed by a detenu challenging the order of detention passed against him on 2.8.99 under the Conservation of Foreign Exchange and Prevention of Smuggling Activities Act hereinafter referred to as COFEPOSA .
The preventive detention order was passed against Radhakrishnan Prabhakaran.
Mainly three points have been raised by the petitioner in challenge of the detention order passed against him.
Petitioner was released on bail on 28.6.99.
The detention order was passed in the following background.
Both of them were arrested on the next day and their statements were separately recorded.
The petitioner arrived at Anna International Airport on 25.4.99 in the companypany of one Radhakrishnan Prabhakaran.
