Noida workers’ protest: SC revises order, revokes stay on quashing of activist’s NSA detention

The Supreme Court on Thursday revised its ruling from a day earlier, which stayed an Allahabad High Court order quashing the National Security Act detention of a 25-year-old Delhi University graduate after the workers’ protest in Noida, reported Live Law.

On Wednesday, a bench of Justices Satish Chandra Sharma and NK Singh had stayed the entire judgement by the High Court, which included directions for the Gautam Buddha Nagar District Magistrate Medha Roopam to pay Rs 5 lakh as compensation from her salary to the student, Akriti Chaudhary.

In the revised order published on Thursday, the court revoked the portion about the quashing of Chaudhary’s detention, the legal news outlet reported.

Part quashing detention not stayed

Chaudhary has been in jail for more than five months. She had been detained on April 11, two days before the protest in Noida turned violent, her family stated. In May, the Uttar Pradesh Police invoked the National Security Act against her while she was in custody.

The Act allows for long periods of detention without trial up to a year.

Despite her detention under the Act being quashed by the High Court on September 2, she remained in jail because she has been named in several first information reports in connection with the protest.

On September 2, the High Court said that Rs 5 lakh...

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