Mumbai, Oct 5 (PTI) The Aurangabad bench of Bombay High Court quashed a detention order passed by a magistrate in Jalgaon district against a 20-year-old man calling it illegal and a “colourable exercise of power” and ordered the Maharashtra government to pay him Rs 2 lakh as compensation.

The amount shall be recovered from the salary of the magistrate who passed the detention order, the HC further said.

The court said the detention order has resulted in the person being kept in illegal detention, thereby affecting his fundamental rights to life and personal liberty. Show Full Article

The man, Dikshant Sapkale, in his plea in HC, claimed the detention order passed in July 2024 was not served upon him immediately and was handed over only in May this year when he was released on bail in an

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