Two brothers in Jabalpur were detained under the National Security Act by the District Magistrate's order of 6.1.2026, after a country-made bomb explosion on 4.1.2026 that police attributed to one of them; the detention was extended on 1.4.2026 and 6.7.2026. The High Court found that the City Superintendent of Police, Gohalpur, listed fourteen cases as pending trial when the petitioner had been acquitted in eleven of them, some as far back as 2004, and that the report went from the CSP to the Additional SP, the SP and the District Magistrate on the same day. It held that this incorrect supply of data, its mechanical forwarding and the District Magistrate's reliance on it without verification vitiated the detention, which could have been checked on CCTNS 'with the slightest of efforts'. The court also recorded that the SP had issued a show-cause notice to a sub-inspector over manipulation of CCTV footage of 4.1.2026. The detention orders were set aside on 11.09.2026.
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How verification works →By judgment dated 11 September 2026 in Writ Petition No. 2985 of 2026 with Writ Petition No. 2986 of 2026, the Madhya Pradesh High Court (Coram: Vivek Agarwal, Avanindra Kumar Singh, JJ.) adjudicated the matter concerning 3 police personnel, namely: City Superintendent of Police, Gohalpur Division, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh Police; Additional Superintendent of Police (City), Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh Police; Superintendent of Police, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh Police.
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Judgment dated 11 September 2026. This judgment may still be subject to appeal; initiation or pendency of an appeal is not a finding.
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“this lacuna of non-application of mind, arising out of the incorrect supply of data by the concerned City Superintendent of Police, Gohalpur, District Jabalpur, and its mechanical forwarding by the Additional Superintendent of Police and the Superintendent of Police to …” (para 24)
The Madhya Pradesh High Court set aside the NSA detention order of 6.1.2026 against both brothers, finding non-application of mind caused by incorrect criminal-history data supplied by police.
(Past-days sweep (25-27 Sep): record written from the full order on Indian Kanoon; quote checked verbatim; judgment date is 11.09.2026 (reported 22.09.2026). Detainees are not named.)
Corrections (0): No corrections recorded.
Review: Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded.
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