The Supreme Court has quashed the NSA detention of Mulla Afroz, an accused in the 2024 Sambhal violence, holding that the State could not have passed the order on the basis of a confession allegedly made in police custody, and imposed costs of Rs 10 lakh on the Uttar Pradesh government.
The Supreme Court has revised its interim order in the case of Noida District Magistrate Medha Roopam, clarifying that its stay operates only on the Allahabad High Court’s strictures against the officer and its direction to pay compensation to a student, and not on the quashing of the student’s NSA detention, which stands. New Delhi: […]
The Supreme Court has stayed the operation of paragraphs 27 to 33 of the Allahabad High Court judgment that had directed the recovery of ₹5 lakh from the personal salary of Noida DM Medha Roopam, and recorded strictures against her, over a student’s quashed NSA detention. Issuing notice on her plea and a connected State petition, the Court stayed the strictures until the matter is heard on merits, and listed it for October 7.
The Supreme Court has reserved orders on a plea by Noida District Magistrate Medha Roopam challenging the Allahabad High Court’s direction to recover ₹5 lakh from her personal salary as compensation to a student whose National Security Act detention, over the Noida workers’ protest, the High Court quashed as based on a ‘concocted’ story. The State and the DM argued that the personal strictures and cost were unwarranted, and pressed for a stay. The student’s counsel opposed the plea.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court has set aside a National Security Act detention order, holding that it was vitiated by non-application of mind, as the District Magistrate had relied on stale cases and on cases in which the detenu had actually been acquitted, but which were shown as pending or ending in conviction. The Court reiterated that preventive detention requires a live and proximate link between past conduct and the apprehended breach of public order, and that a measure curtailing personal liberty demands strict adherence to its safeguards.
An elected panchayat representative was externed under the Bihar Control of Crimes Act on the eve of the 2025 Assembly election, ordered to report 40 km from home thrice a week. The Patna High Court quashed the order, holding that the District Magistrate had no material before him but a police forwarding letter, acted as a post office without applying his mind, and violated natural justice. It awarded Rs 50,000 compensation and cautioned officials.
Gautam Buddh Nagar District Magistrate Medha Roopam has moved the Supreme Court against the Allahabad High Court order directing that Rs 5 lakh compensation awarded to Delhi University student Akriti Chaudhary be recovered from the salaries of the officers responsible for her NSA detention. The petition is yet to be listed.
The Allahabad High Court quashed a “Goonda” declaration and six-month externment, holding that a single pending case cannot establish the “habitual” criminality the law requires, that the police “deliberately portrayed a false picture” by relying on a case in which the man had been acquitted years earlier, and calling it “a glaring example of the […]
The Allahabad High Court issued detailed guidelines governing preventive detention under the BNSS and CrPC, holding that detainees should ordinarily be released on personal bonds without sureties. The Court also introduced compensation for unlawful detention beyond 24 hours, strengthening accountability and protection of personal liberty.
