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UP government announces crackdown on 'sugarcane mafia', invokes NSA

Sugarcane mafia refers to middlemen who get themselves enrolled as farmers with respective cane societies

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A farmer works in his sugarcane field

Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
The Uttar Pradesh government has announced a crackdown on the state's ‘sugarcane mafia’ and slapped the National Security Act (NSA) against such elements. The move comes ahead of the 2019-20 sugarcane crushing season which is still some months away.

The NSA authorises the Centre or a State government to arrest a person, who poses a threat to national security. The act also empowers the government to detain a person in order to prevent him from disrupting public order or for maintenance of supplies, services essential to the community. The maximum period for which a person may be detained is 12 months. 

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