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Supreme Court examines a student's detention under the NSA
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Supreme Court examines a student's detention under the NSA
A Supreme Court challenge to a student's detention under the National Security Act, 1980 has renewed scrutiny of preventive detention powers.
Why it matters: GS-2 core; factual, Prelims-type
What you need to know
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A challenge to the detention of a student under the National Security Act, 1980 has reached the Supreme Court, questioning the state's use of preventive detention powers.
The NSA allows the government to detain a person without trial to prevent them from acting in a manner prejudicial to public order or national security.
Such detention can be challenged before an Advisory Board and, ultimately, before constitutional courts.
ஆதாரங்கள்: Topper IAS editorial (PIB / The Hindu / Indian Express)
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Remember these
- National Security Act 1980
- preventive detention
- Supreme Court
- Advisory Board
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How the exam will ask it
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- National Security Act 1980, preventive detention, Supreme Court, Advisory Board
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Use as an example in GS-2 answers (GS Paper 2 - Polity / Fundamental Rights).
Quick recall
Answer before you reveal
The National Security Act, 1980, whose use in a recent student detention case reached the Supreme Court, primarily empowers the government to:
- Detain a person without trial to prevent acts prejudicial to public order or security
- Freeze the bank accounts of a terrorist organisation
- Ban a political party from contesting elections
- Confiscate the passport of an absconding offender
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விடை: A — The National Security Act, 1980 empowers preventive detention without trial where a person's activities are considered prejudicial to public order or national security.
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