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The Economic Times
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SC grants four weeks to Centre to file response on plea challenging validity of NIA Act

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to file within four weeks its response on a petition challenging the validity of the National Investigation Agency Act, 2008.

Additional Solicitor General Aishwarya Bhati, appearing for the Centre, told a bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta that the government needed some time to file the counter affidavit.

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