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The Economic Times
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Detention under NSA can't be based on confession statement of accused: SC

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the confession statement of an accused cannot be the basis for detaining him under the National Security Act.

A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu delivered the judgment while quashing the preventive detention of Mulla Afroz.

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