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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\nBHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh High Court has criticised the \u201creckless invocation\u201d of the National Security Act (NSA), while quashing the preventive detention of two brothers under the law and warning that an extraordinary constitutional measure was being treated as an ordinary course of proceedings.A division bench headed by Justice Vivek Agarwal ordered the release of Rajendra Thakur and Rajesh Thakur, ruling that authorities failed to establish the requisite grounds for preventive detention and appeared to have acted without applying their minds. The Jabalpur district collector had ordered their detention on Jan 6 for three months over an alleged threat to public order, later extending the period.\u201cPreventive detention, conceived as an extraordinary measure by the framers of our Constitution, has been rendered ordinary with its reckless invocation over the years as if it were available for use even in the ordinary course of proceedings,\u201d HC said.The order, delivered on Sept 11, was made public on Oct 5.The court found that the brothers, named in 14 cases, had been acquitted in 11 when NSA was invoked against them. \u201cThis leads to a conclusion that correct facts were not placed before the competent authority, and that clearly suffers from the vice of non-application of mind,\u201d the bench said.It added that authorities could have verified their criminal records with minimal effort through the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems. The three pending cases against the duo pertained to obscene act, causing hurt and wrongful confinement, and throwing a crude bomb to create unrest.The bench was also alarmed that the proposal by the city SP to invoke NSA and the collector\u2019s detention order passed through four officials and were completed on the same day.\u201cTurning our attention to section 3(1) of the NSA, the govt has to arrive at a subjective satisfaction that a goonda (as in the present case) has to be detained, in order to prevent him from acting in a manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order. The application of mind to invoke the aforesaid extraordinary measure appears to be missing in the present case,\u201d the HC said.\u201cThere is no requisite satisfaction recorded by the detaining authority that the detenus are a threat to public order. It also appears that the haste with which the matter was processed in a single day took away independent exercise of mind by the detaining authority,\u201d it added.Citing the Supreme Court\u2019s 2023 ruling in Ameena Begum vs State of Telangana, the bench stressed that constitutional safeguards must be enforced to prevent arbitrary detention.\u201cTo unchain the shackles of preventive detention, it is important that safeguards enshrined in our Constitution, particularly under the \u2018golden triangle\u2019 formed by Articles 14, 19 and 21, are diligently enforced,\u201d the court said.The ruling comes amid similar judicial criticism of NSA detentions in Uttar Pradesh. Last month, Allahabad HC ordered the release of Delhi University graduate Aakriti Choudhary, detained in connection with a workers\u2019 protest in April, and imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on Noida DM and other officials.In its Sept 2 order, Allahabad HC rebuked UP\u2019s administrative machinery for invoking NSA without applying its mind or relying on credible evidence. It stressed that preventive detention was an exception, not a substitute for ordinary criminal law.Reminding police and administrative officials that their allegiance was to the Constitution, not the political executive, Allahabad HC warned that an errant bureaucracy could reduce UP to an Orwellian dystopia.<\/div>\n BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh High Court has criticised the \u201creckless invocation\u201d of the National Security Act (NSA), while quashing the preventive detention of two brothers under the law and warning that an extraordinary constitutional measure was being treated as an ordinary course of proceedings.A division bench headed by Justice Vivek Agarwal ordered the release of Rajendra 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