withdraw the recovery notices. The Supreme Court has urged the Uttar Pradesh government to withdraw the recovery notices issued to alleged anti-CAA demonstrators in December 2019, stating that the actions violated the law.
A bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and Surya Kant offered the State one more chance to drop the recovery notices, adding that if it did not, the proceedings would be quashed for being illegal.
During the hearing, the court noted that the Uttar Pradesh government had behaved as a
“complainant, adjudicator, and prosecutor”
in conducting the processes to seize the accused’s property.
The Uttar Pradesh government came under fire for acting on the recovery letters sent to the supposed anti-CAA protestors in December 2019. It offered them one last chance to stop the proceedings and issued a warning that it would quash them if they were illegal.
The Supreme Court was hearing a petition seeking to have recovery letters issued by the Uttar Pradesh government for damage to public property caused by protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in the state quashed.
Throughout her appearance on Uttar Pradesh, Additional Advocate General Garima Prashad informed the Supreme Court that 106 FIRs and 274 recovery notices had been filed against 833 rioters in the state.
withdraw the recovery notice
Published By: Jaspreet Singh
Edited By: Kritika Kashyap
