The Allahabad High Court has held that the arrest of an accused who is already in custody in another case is a fresh arrest, so the grounds of that arrest must be communicated to him under Article 22(1) of the Constitution and Section 48(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Lucknow: The Allahabad High […]
The Allahabad High Court has quashed a gang chart, charge sheet, cognizance order and the entire Gangsters Act prosecution against a man, holding that the Superintendent of Police and the District Magistrate had merely signed a cyclostyled gang chart, on different dates, without recording any independent satisfaction or application of mind. Calling it a ‘sad state of affairs’, the Court directed officials to act with fairness and follow binding precedent.
