Maoists move court against NSA detention
Maoist leader Roopesh, his wife Shyna and three others
who were arrested by the ‘Q’ Branch police in the outskirts of
Coimbatore in May this year, have moved the Madras High Court
challenging their detention under the National Security Act (NSA).
When the
habeas corpus
pleas filed by all five arrested persons came up for hearing on Friday, a
Division Bench comprising S. Tamilvanan and C.T. Selvam ordered issuing
of notice to authorities and posted the matter for October 12.
Following
their arrest by the police at Karumathampatty in Coimbatore district in
May, the five persons were issued the detention orders at Coimbatore
Central prison in July.
The arrested were booked
under Section 3(2) of NSA, 1980, which would prevent them from acting in
a manner prejudicial to the maintenance of public order.
It may be recalled that a local court in Coimbatore had rejected their bail applications as well.
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