Justices G.R. Swaminathan and V. Lakshminarayanan say, he had invoked the Goondas Act against a realtor for extraneous reasons and that he was habituated to passing such detention orders
Coimbatore District Collector Pavankumar G. Giriyappanavar invoked the Goondas Act against the two accused after categorising them as sexual offenders
Three other accused do not press their bail applications since they had been detained under the Goondas Act
Judges say the branding of a real estate developer as a ‘goonda,’ on the basis of a complaint lodged by DMDK Rajya Sabha member L.K. Sudhish’s wife, ‘shocks their conscience’
The police arrested him with the contraband at Salakarai Road in Naduveerapattu on April 3
A habeas corpus petition has also been filed in the Madras High Court challenging his preventive detention under the Goondas Act