The Allahabad High Court quashed the NSA detention of DU law student and activist Akriti Chaudhary, calling it an 'abuse of draconian preventive detention law' and a 'despotic' act by the Noida administration. The court ordered ₹5 lakh compensation to be deducted from the salaries of the officers responsible. This judgment is a crucial check on executive arbitrariness and misuse of preventive detention laws, a key topic for UPSC Polity (Article 22, NSA).
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- ›Compensation Ordered: ₹5 lakh (to be deducted from officers' salaries)
- ›Detention Law Quashed: National Security Act (NSA)
- ›Target this Data: ₹5 lakh compensation ordered by Allahabad HC to be deducted from officers' salaries
- ›Target this Court: Allahabad High Court (Division Bench of Justices Atul Sreedharan and Achal Sachdev)
- ›Target this Law: National Security Act (NSA) – preventive detention law
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