Noida DM Medha Roopam Moves Supreme Court Against Allahabad HC Order Slamming Her For Student's NSA Detention

Gautam Buddh Nagar District Magistrate Medha Roopam has moved the Supreme Court against the Allahabad High Court order which directed a compensation of Rs.5 lakhs from her salary over the detention of student Akriti Chaudhary under the National Security Act. To recap, while quashing the NSA detention of 24-year-old Delhi University law student and activist, Akriti Chaudhary, the Allahabad High Court had strongly criticized the manner in which the detention order was passed by the Noida District Magistrate.The bench categorically warned that continued 'despotic' conduct by errant bureaucracy could reduce Uttar Pradesh to an “Orwellian Dystopia”A Bench of Justice Atul Sreedharan and Justice Achal Sachdev held that Chaudhary's continued incarceration under the NSA violated her Fundamental Right under Article 21, as the detention order and grounds were devoid of material and were passed “without application of mind”.