A detention order under Section 3 1 of the COFEPOSA Act was passed by the authorities on 13.9.1996 against the respondent.
Thereafter, the respondent went in appeal before the Division Bench and again obtained ad interim relief on 10.1.1997 which was extended from time to time.
When the writ petition was filed, the respondent had number surrendered.
It is challenged by the Union of India in these appeals.
Stand of the writ petitioners before the High Court was that a petition for preventing the respondents in the writ petition from enforcing the said order was disposed of by order dated 19.7.2002 in Criminal Writ Petition No.1408 of 1999.
The respondent before surrendering filed a writ petition in the High Court on 23.10.1996 and obtained an interim stay of the proposed order, which had remained un served.
Dr. ARIJIT PASAYAT, J. Leave granted.
Challenge in this appeal is to the judgment of a learned Single Judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court allowing the Writ Petition filed by the respondents.
Prayer in the writ petition was to quash the detention order dated 10.5.1993.
