CHENNAI: Suspected Maoist leader Roopesh, alleged to be the head of Western Ghats Zonal Committee of CPI (Maoist), and three others arrested by the ‘Q’ branch police on May 4 at Coimbatore and later detained under National Security Act, moved the Madras High Court challenging their detention under the NSA.
The alleged extremists Roopesh, his wife Shyna, Easwaran and Kannan approached the High Court through a Habeas Corpus Petition, seeking the court to set aside the order of Coimbatore Collector on July 16 detaining them under NSA. The petitioners alleged that their grounds of detention were vague, due to which they could not formulate any ground of defence against the order of detention. “While we were already in judicial remand, there was no necessity to detain us under the NSA,” the petitioners said.