Taken into custody at 7:34 PM on August 23, formally arrested at 2:57 PM the next day: the Allahabad High Court has found the detention unlawful, remarked that the UP Police are a Law Unto Themselves, and ordered the man’s release. Prayagraj: A man held by the Uttar Pradesh Police after a clash between two […]
Lucknow or Noida? Journalist Satyam Verma says CCTV footage and call records place him in Lucknow on the day of the Noida violence, while the detention order alleges he incited workers to violence. The Allahabad High Court has now reserved judgment on his NSA detention habeas plea. Prayagraj: After hearing the parties on October 7 […]
Allahabad High Court Frees Noida Man held in illegal detention: “Sharm aani chahiye aapko,” a bench led by Justice Atul Sreedharan orally told the police officers before it. Prayagraj: A habeas corpus petition against the detention of a man by the Noida police succeeded in the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday, with the bench ordering […]
Rs 30,000 and a police inquiry: that is what the Allahabad High Court has attached to an undocumented stay in the Soraon police lock-up, holding that Subsequent Arrest Cannot Cure Illegal Detention. Prayagraj: Finding that a man’s formal arrest and remand had been preceded by an undisclosed police detention, the Allahabad High Court has declared […]
A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court has set aside the arrest of Raghvendra Dubey in a sand-mining dispute, holding that Chitrakoot police manipulated the time of his arrest and deliberately shut off or deleted three station CCTV feeds, that the grounds of arrest were inadequate, and that police prima facie acted as recovery agents for the complainant, awarding Rs 10,000 compensation and issuing CCTV directions.
