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Dec 2019

In power

BJP — Uttar Pradesh

Acted

State government, Uttar Pradesh

Under

A government order on recovery of damages, which the state said follows the Supreme Court's guidelines in Re: Destruction of Public and Private Properties (2009); later the Uttar Pradesh Recovery of Damage to Public and Private Property Act, 2020

Recovery of property damage: the Uttar Pradesh government sent show-cause notices demanding payment for damage during the protests and threatened to confiscate property. In March 2020 the Lucknow administration put up roadside banners with the photos, names and addresses of people accused of violence. On 9 March 2020 the Allahabad High Court, acting on its own, held the banners an unwarranted interference in privacy and ordered their removal. On 12 March 2020 the Supreme Court referred the state's appeal to a larger bench without staying the High Court order. On 18 February 2022 the state told the Supreme Court it had withdrawn the show-cause notices issued since December 2019, and the court ordered a refund of amounts recovered, leaving the state free to proceed under its 2020 recovery law. [1][2][4][5][3]

• more than 200 people from whom payment was demanded (late December 2019), said Uttar Pradesh government (as reported by Al Jazeera) [1]
• 53 people named on the Lucknow banners, said Lucknow administration (as reported by Scroll.in) [2]
• 274 show-cause notices withdrawn, said State of Uttar Pradesh (recorded in the Supreme Court order) [3]

Court: On 9 March 2020 the Allahabad High Court ordered the Lucknow District Magistrate and Police Commissioner to remove the banners and told the state not to put up such banners without authority of law. [4]

Court: On 12 March 2020 the Supreme Court sent the state's appeal against that order to a bench of at least three judges. [5]

Court: On 18 February 2022 the Supreme Court recorded the withdrawal of the 274 show-cause notices and ordered refunds, without prejudice to proceedings before the Claims Tribunal under the 2020 Act. [3]

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