Rush Hour: Activist’s NSA detention quashed, ex-bureaucrat allegedly questioned about X post & more
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The Allahabad High Court quashed the preventive detention of 25-year-old Aakriti Chaudhary under the National Security Act. The Delhi University graduate has been in jail for nearly five months in connection with the workers’ protest in Noida.
The court held that she was detained by the Uttar Pradesh government based on a “concocted story”. The Noida authorities were directed to pay Chaudhary Rs 5 lakh as compensation.
However, she will remain in jail as she is yet to secure bail in other cases registered in connection with the April protests. Read on.
Former civil servant Ashish Joshi was picked up by men in plain clothes, purportedly Delhi Police personnel, and taken in for questioning about an X post he had made about Home Minister Amit Shah, alleged Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit. Joshi said in social media post just before 7.30 pm that the Special Cell of the Delhi Police had dropped him home.
Dikshit said that a friend who was with Joshi when he was asked to accompany the officers to the Special Cell said this concerned a tweet the retired bureaucrat had posted last month, claiming that there had been a “massive showdown” between...