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🔆National Security Act, 1980

✅The National Security Act, 1980 is India’s preventive detention law.

✅Preventive detention is basically the detention of a person without a trial to prevent him/her from committing a crime.

✅It empowers the Union Government or the State Governments to detain a person to prevent him from acting in any manner prejudicial to the defence of India, the relations of India with foreign powers, or the security of India.

✅It had been introduced by the Indira Gandhi government through the ordinance route.

✅The NSA is a preventive detention law which means it is used by the authorities to detain a person so that he/she may be prevented from committing a crime and/or escape future prosecution.

📍National Security Act Provisions

✅The Act empowers the central and state governments to detain a person as a preventive measure for reasons of security of the state and/or public order.

✅The person can be detained so as to prevent him/her from acting in any manner prejudicial to national security. The person needn’t be charged during the period of detention.

✅The government can also keep a person in preventive detention to prevent him from disrupting public order or for the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the community.

✅The detainee can be kept for up to a period of 12 months. The period of detention can be extended if the authorities find adequate evidence.

✅The detainee need not be informed of the reason for his/her detention for up to five days and in exceptional circumstances, for up to ten days also.

✅No suit or legal action shall be filed against the central or state government for anything done in good faith done in pursuance of the NSA

Syllabus : Anti terror laws in India

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🔆National Security Act, 1980

✅The National Security Act, 1980 is India’s preventive detention law.

✅Preventive detention is basically the detention of a person without a trial to prevent him/her from committing a crime.

✅It empowers the Union Government or the State Governments to detain a person to prevent him from acting in any manner prejudicial to the defence of India, the relations of India with foreign powers, or the security of India.

✅It had been introduced by the Indira Gandhi government through the ordinance route.

✅The NSA is a preventive detention law which means it is used by the authorities to detain a person so that he/she may be prevented from committing a crime and/or escape future prosecution.

📍National Security Act Provisions

✅The Act empowers the central and state governments to detain a person as a preventive measure for reasons of security of the state and/or public order.

✅The person can be detained so as to prevent him/her from acting in any manner prejudicial to national security. The person needn’t be charged during the period of detention.

✅The government can also keep a person in preventive detention to prevent him from disrupting public order or for the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the community.

✅The detainee can be kept for up to a period of 12 months. The period of detention can be extended if the authorities find adequate evidence.

✅The detainee need not be informed of the reason for his/her detention for up to five days and in exceptional circumstances, for up to ten days also.

✅No suit or legal action shall be filed against the central or state government for anything done in good faith done in pursuance of the NSA

Syllabus : Anti terror laws in India

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