Fakhrudeen alias ‘Police’ Fakhrudeen, who was arrested by the CB-CID for his alleged involvement in multiple terror acts across the State in which several right-wing leaders were killed, has moved the Madras High Court seeking to transfer him from the solitary confinement in prison.
When the case came up for hearing before the vacation bench comprising Justices V. Dhanapalan and S. Vaidyanathan, it ordered issuing of notices to officials in Home Department, ADGP (Prisons) and Superintendent of Police at Puzhal returnable in two weeks.
In his habeas corpus petition, the remand prisoner submitted that since the day of his detention on October 2013, he has been kept in solitary confinement and not permitted to meet any of the other inmates in the prison, including two other accused in the cases – Bilal Malik and Mohamed Ismail.
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His representation to authorities on August 18 last year seeking to remove him from solitary confinement has not been responded. The solitary confinement was in violation of articles 14 (equality before law) and 21 (protection of life) of the Constitution, he contended in his petition.
The remand prisoner was arrested on October 4, 2013 by the CB-CID and was produced before the Judicial Magistrate at Vellore the following day, which remanded him to judicial custody under Section 302 of the IPC.
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He was implicated in more than five cases and was transferred from Vellore to Central Prison at Puzhal in Chennai on December 3 last year.