SC Orders Release of Law Student From Preventive Detention Under NSA

The Supreme Court recently directed the immediate release of a 24-year-old law student hailing from Madhya Pradesh who had been under preventive detention for nearly a year under the National Security Act, 1980 (NSA), after noting that detention of the appellant was "wholly untenable".

- Suchitra Kalyan Mohanty @ New Delhi

The top court ordered that the petitioner (appellant) Annu alias Aniket be released immediately from Central Jail, Bhopal, if he was not required in any other criminal case.

A two-judge vacation bench of the top court, led by Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice Vinod Chandran, observed that the grounds mentioned in the order, which include disruption of law and order, did not satisfy the requirements of Section 3(2) of the NSA.