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Supreme Court stays order quashing student’s NSA detention, penalising Noida DM

September 24, 2026 4:27 am

Earlier in the day, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for Roopam, told the bench that the High Court passed strictures without hearing Roopam.

Uttar Pradesh official's Supreme Court challenge in student NSA detention case

September 13, 2026 8:54 pm

The Allahabad High Court pulled up Gautam Budh Nagar DM Medha Roopam over the manner in which she ordered the detention of 25-year-old student Akriti Chaudhary in connection with a workers’ protest.

Allahabad High Court shows that dissent is the oxygen of democracy

September 11, 2026 4:42 am

The HC's quashing of Akriti Chaudhary's NSA detention isn't just a legal win for one student. It's an indictment of how the nation treats workers' right to protest as a threat to the state itself

Ex-journalist booked under NSA plans to move Allahabad High Court after relief to co-accused

September 04, 2026 9:40 pm

His application in the Supreme Court came a day after the Allahabad High Court quashed the detention of another accused, Akriti Chaudhary, under NSA, describing the invocation of the Act as “arbitrary and vague.”

NSA invoked by Assam against activist Pranab Doley day after he gets bail

August 01, 2026 5:29 am

In a July 29 order granting bail to Doley, an Additional Sessions Judge in Golaghat observed that there is prima facie absence of footage demonstrating these allegations and no “deadly weapon” was seized during investigation.

Pranab Doley, activist jailed for protesting against hotel in Assam, now faces NSA

July 31, 2026 7:42 pm

Pranab Doley was arrested on July 12 in connection with protests against a proposed luxury hotel project in Kaziranga

Inside Bengal's new anti-'goonda' Bill: District ban, 1-year detention without trial

June 30, 2026 8:12 am

The West Bengal Public Safety and Control of Anti-Social Activities Bill, 2026, would significantly widen the state's authority to tackle organised crime and control public disorder, while raising opposition concerns over civil liberties and the exercise of enhanced executive powers.

Noida workers' protest: DU grad, journalist charged under anti-terror law NSA

August 20, 2026 6:40 pm

The Noida police also requested a three-day police custody for some of the accused, which the court listed for hearing on May 15.

Sonam Wangchuk freed, but Ladakh’s March 16 shutdown will go ahead as planned. Here’s why

March 15, 2026 7:38 am

On Saturday, Kargil Democratic Alliance member Sajjad Kargilli said the constitutional guarantees that Ladakh is seeking are not “an individual matter” but a collective concern

‘Centre on backfoot, withdrew NSA against Sonam Wangchuk fearing SC defeat’: ABL co-chair C D Lakruk

March 15, 2026 8:08 am

Chhering Dorje Lakruk says there has been a major trust deficit between the MHA and Ladakh’s civil society groups ‘since the very beginning’.

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Govt revokes Sonam Wangchuk’s detention under National Security Act

March 14, 2026 1:19 pm

Wangchuk was detained on September 26 last year under the NSA for allegedly playing a role in instigating the violent protests in Ladakh on September 24, which led to four deaths in police firing

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