New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday stayed the order of the Allahabad High Court that required Gautam Budh Nagar district magistrate Medha Roopam that directed a compensation amount of Rs.5 lakh to be deducted from her salary over the detention of a student activist Akriti Chaudhary under the National Security Act (NSA) during the Noida workers' protest in April.

A bench of justices Satish Chandra Sharma and N Kotiswar Singh issued notice on the appeals filed by the Uttar Pradesh government and Roopam and held, "After hearing the senior counsels for the parties, this court is of the opinion that till the matter is heard on merits, the operation of the impugned judgment, particularly paras 27 to 33, shall remain stayed."...