Greater Noida DM moves SC against HC order on student NSA detention
Gautam Buddha Nagar District Magistrate Medha Roopam has appealed to the Supreme Court to challenge an Allahabad High Court order that mandated compensation for a student activist detained under the National Security Act. The High Court had previously quashed the detention as illegal, citing a lack of evidence and criticizing the official's failure to properly evaluate the police report.
Why it matters
This case highlights the legal tension between administrative authority and civil liberties, specifically regarding the use of preventive detention laws against student activists and the personal accountability of government officials.
Gautam Buddha Nagar District Magistrate Medha Roopam has approached the Supreme Court against an Allahabad High Court order, which directed the recovery of ₹5 lakh from her salary and that of other officials to compensate Delhi University student Akriti Chaudhary for detaining her under the National Security Act over a workers’ protest in Noida in April this year.
A Division Bench of the High Court had quashed the nearly five-month detention as illegal.
Ms. Roopam's petition has arraigned Ms. Chaudhary as the primary respondent.
The move comes a few days after Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who had appeared for the authorities in the High Court, orally indicated that the government would separately challenge the September 2 order.
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