CAA protests: SC orders UP govt to refund recoveries made from dissenters
India Today
The Supreme Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to refund the complete amount collected after recovery notices that were issued to purported anti-CAA protestors were withdrawn by the state, following criticism by the top court.
The Supreme Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh administration to refund all ‘recoveries’ made through recovery notices issued by the Yogi Adityanath government for damages caused to public property during the protests against the anti-Citizenship (Amendment) Act in 2019.
The Supreme Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to refund the complete amount collected after the recovery notices that were issued to purported anti-CAA protestors were withdrawn by the state, following criticism by the top court.
ALSO READ | CAA protests: UP government starts process to seize property of protesters involved in violence
The Uttar Pradesh government Friday told the Supreme Court that it has withdrawn 274 recovery notices and proceedings initiated against anti-CAA protestors.
The Supreme Court on Friday said that if the notices have been withdrawn, the due procedure has to be followed. “If an attachment is done against the law and the orders have been recalled, how can the attachment be allowed to go on,” the court asked.
On February 11, the top court had pulled up the UP government for acting on the recovery notices issued to the alleged anti-CAA protestors in December 2019 and gave one final opportunity to it to withdraw the proceedings and warned that it will quash the proceedings for being in violation of the law.
Additional Advocate General for Uttar Pradesh urged the Supreme Court to not pass the order to refund as the recovery ran into crores of Rupees and would show as if the entire process carried out by the administration was illegal.
