The Tamil Nadu government today submitted before the Madras High Court that no one be allowed to meet terror suspect Panna Ismail undergoing treatment at a hospital for bullet injuries suffered during his arrest.
When the habeas corpus petition filed by Ismail's wife Shameen Banu seeking direction to the police to allow her to visit her husband came up for hearing, Public Prosecutor R Shanmuga Velayudham submitted that no visitor could be allowed to meet the suspect as he was undergoing treatment.
The Division Bench comprising Justices S Rajeswaran and A Arumughaswamy accepted the government's contention and adjourned the hearing on the matter to October 25.
In a joint operation by Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh police, Panna Ismail and another terror suspect were arrested at Puttur on October 5.
Ismail suffered bullet injuries in the operation.
Banu contended that denying permission to her and family members to see Ismail was a violation of Article 21 of the Constitution (protection of life and personal liberty) and sought a direction to police to produce her husband before the court, provide proper medical treatment to him, permit her to see her husband and stay with him till he was discharged from the hospital.
