The Allahabad High Court quashed a “Goonda” declaration and six-month externment, holding that a single pending case cannot establish the “habitual” criminality the law requires, that the police “deliberately portrayed a false picture” by relying on a case in which the man had been acquitted years earlier, and calling it “a glaring example of the […]
In a comment piece for The Tribune, former Supreme Court judge Justice Deepak Gupta argues that no country can call itself truly free without an independent and fearless judiciary, and warns that on liberty, dissent and the appointment of judges, India’s constitutional courts have fallen short in recent years. New Delhi: Former Supreme Court judge […]
The Allahabad High Court has ordered the production of a 31-year-old man before it on September 16, on a habeas corpus plea alleging that he is being illegally detained by his father after he converted to Islam and married, with the State authorities said to have facilitated the detention. Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has […]
The Allahabad High Court issued detailed guidelines governing preventive detention under the BNSS and CrPC, holding that detainees should ordinarily be released on personal bonds without sureties. The Court also introduced compensation for unlawful detention beyond 24 hours, strengthening accountability and protection of personal liberty.
The Allahabad High Court termed the situation “shocking” after records showed that 4,847 people were placed in preventive detention in Prayagraj and Ghaziabad over two years. The Court expressed concern that many detainees remained jailed for days or weeks despite statutory safeguards under the law.
