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Allahabad High Court directing Uttar Pradesh government on illegal detention said that the illegal detained people must be compensated.
Allahabad High Court directed Uttar Pradesh Government to take appropriate action and provide monetary compensation to two persons who were illegally detained in jail under CrPC provisions 151, 107 and 116 in Varanasi district even after they had furnished personal bonds.
Allahabad High Court bench of Justices Surya Prakash Kesarwani and Shamim Ahmed on February 2 said that the court observed that SDM, Varanasi, acted arbitrarily and illegally in detaining the two persons for breach of peace.
Allahabad High Court bench ordered SDM to file an affidavit explaining his conduct on March 3, the next date of hearing.
Allahabad High Court bench of Justices Surya Prakash Kesarwani and Shamim Ahmed was entertaining a matter, in which police arrested the petitioners in apprehension of breach of public peace under Section 151 CrPC on October 8 last year.
Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested petitioner following a tiff between Shiv Kumar Verma and another person and their family members over partition of ancestral land.
Police presented petitioner before the SDM after the arrest where petitioners submitted personal bonds and other papers on October 12, but the SDM did not release them and ordered verification of revenue documents and directed the file to be placed on October 21, 2020.
After the said varification petitioners were then released on October 21.