Govt constitutes 3-member advisory board of sitting HC judges to review NSA cases
The Hindu
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has constituted an advisory board comprising three judges of the Delhi High Court to review the cases registered under the stringent National Security Act (NSA) which allows the detention of a person up to a year without any charge.
Such an advisory board is constituted under Section 9 of the 1980 Act.
According to an official notification, Justice Yogesh Khanna will be the chairman of the advisory board while justices Chandra Dhari Singh and Rajnish Bhatnagar will be members of the high-powered body.
The NSA empowers the Government to detain a person if it considers the individual a threat to national security or to prevent him or her from disrupting public order.
Under the NSA, a person can be detained for up to 12 months without a charge. The detained person can be held for 10 days without being told the charges against him or her.
The detainee can appeal only before the advisory board for relief but will not be allowed a lawyer during the trial.
In the case of every NSA detainee, the Government concerned shall, within three weeks from the date of detention, place before the advisory board the grounds on which the order has been made and the representation, if any, made by the detainee.