A man died in Bijnor District Jail two days after the Allahabad High Court had granted him bail, and, according to his family, a day after his wife informed the jail of the bail order and he expressed fear for his life. Calling a death in custody with no satisfactory explanation a matter of serious concern, a Division Bench has directed the Director General of UP Prisons to explain, on affidavit, the circumstances of the death.
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.
Rejecting anticipatory bail to a Railway Protection Force officer accused in a custodial death, the Allahabad High Court observed that “the plague of custodial death does not show any sign of abating,” and held that in such cases the burden of proof should ordinarily lie on the police personnel to rebut the allegations against them. […]
After a Delhi High Court order to release an undertrial on parole went unimplemented, and a later order imposing conditions was defied on the ground that it had not come ‘directly from the court’, the High Court drew contempt proceedings against the Tihar Jail Superintendent. It held that keeping a man behind bars despite a constitutional court’s release order, on a condition the court never imposed, violated his rights under Articles 14 and 21.
An elected panchayat representative was externed under the Bihar Control of Crimes Act on the eve of the 2025 Assembly election, ordered to report 40 km from home thrice a week. The Patna High Court quashed the order, holding that the District Magistrate had no material before him but a police forwarding letter, acted as a post office without applying his mind, and violated natural justice. It awarded Rs 50,000 compensation and cautioned officials.
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 […]
