India, Dec. 1 -- AIUDF MLA Aminul Islam, who was arrested under the National Security Act and other charges in April, was set free after the Gauhati High Court quashed his detention order. Issuing an order in a criminal writ petition, a division bench of Justice Kalyan Rai Surana and Justice Rajesh Mazumdar set aside the case against Islam and asked the authorities concerned to release him from jail. On April 24, the three-time MLA was arrested on sedition charges after he had made "misleading and instigating" statements in public, which went viral and had the "potential to create an adverse situation".
"The petitioner was not informed about his right to prefer a representation to the detaining authority itself either when the order dated ...