State Governments Invoking NSA for Protecting Corona Warriors from Attacks
Recently, many state governments invoked National Security Act, 1980 against those offenders who were attacking doctors, nurses, police etc fulfilling their duties in the fight against COVID-19.
National Security Act, 1980
- The National Security Act (NSA) is a preventive detention law which was promulgated on September 23, 1980.
- It empowers the Centre or a State government to detain a person to prevent him from acting in any manner prejudicial to national security. The government can also detain a person to prevent him from disrupting public order or for maintenance of supplies and services essential to the community. Additionally ....
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