Can a police confession justify NSA detention? What Supreme Court said in Sambhal case
The Supreme Court quashed the preventive detention of Mulla Afroz under the National Security Act, stating that a police confession alone cannot justify such detention. The court found that the evidence relied upon by authorities, including undisclosed CCTV footage and phone messages, was insufficient. The UP government was ordered to pay ₹10 lakh in costs for the unlawful detention.