The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has quashed the preventive detention of a 20-year-old labourer from Jalgaon, calling his year-long incarceration “illegal and unconstitutional.” The court also directed the Maharashtra government to pay Rs 2 lakh in compensation to the petitioner, Dikshant alias Dadu Devidas Sapkale, and recover the amount from the salary of the Jalgaon District Magistrate who had issued the detention order.
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