Supreme Court imposes 10 lakh cost on UP government for illegal NSA detention
The Supreme Court of India has fined the Uttar Pradesh government 10 lakh rupees for the illegal preventive detention of an accused individual under the National Security Act. The court ruled that the state failed to justify the detention and criticized the use of preventive laws as a punitive measure.
Why it matters
This ruling reinforces judicial oversight on the use of preventive detention laws, highlighting concerns regarding state overreach and the protection of individual civil liberties.
NEW DELHI: Uttar Pradesh govt failed to give a satisfactory answer for keeping an accused in the 2024 Sambhal violence case under preventive detention for a year under the National Security Act, the Supreme Court said on Tuesday and slapped a Rs 10 lakh fine on the state, to be paid to the detenu. It also reminded the state to "remain faithful" to the preventive detention jurisprudence and not use it as a punitive measure.Declaring the preventive detention, which was resorted to by the state to keep accused Mulla Afroz in custody after he was granted bail, as illegal, a bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu said there were multiple flaws in the decision, as evidence to justify it was insufficient.
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