MCJS jail superintendent Sokhlal Touthang said Manipur activist Erandro Leichombam, who was detained under the National Security Act, was released from the Central Jail at Sajiwa in Imphal East district before 5 pm on Monday. Manipur Central Jail, Sajiwa (MCJS) SP said that the state home department ordered the Director General of Prisons to release him and accordingly, the jail authorities released Leichombam before 5 pm.
The top court had earlier in the day directed the release of a political activist who was booked under the NSA for criticizing BJP leaders over the use of cow dung and cow urine as a treatment for COVID-19 , by 5 pm was told that they could not be kept. Jail even for one night A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and MR Shah said that his continued detention would be violative of his fundamental right to life under Article 21 of the Constitution.
While walking out of jail, Leachombam told reporters that the BJP-led state government’s action to “silence the citizens” was an “abuse of power” vested in the executive. “They are perhaps unaware that freedom of speech and expression is a fundamental right enshrined in the Constitution of India.
“In the state elections, the people of Manipur will give him a befitting reply.” The term of the present assembly will end on March 19, 2022. At the beginning of the hearing in the top court on Monday, advocate Shadan Farasat, the political activist’s father L Raghumani Singh, who appeared, said the preventive detention clause has been used in a case where even simple penal provisions are not required.
He said the activist has only criticized BJP leaders who allegedly advocate cow dung and cow urine as a treatment for COVID-19. The petition had challenged the political worker’s preventive detention under the NSA, alleging that BJP leaders were “only” for their criticism of allegedly using cow dung and cow urine as a treatment for COVID-19. to punish them”.
The petition filed by the father of the political activist claimed that his son had posted on Facebook on May 13 that the cure for coronavirus is not cow dung and urine. The bench listed the matter for Tuesday when Solicitor General Tushar Mehta said he was not contesting the petition but would file a reply.
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