PRAYAGRAJ, Oct. 16 -- The Allahabad high court has pulled up the Uttar Pradesh Police over the unlawful detention of a man before his formal arrest, observing that the police appeared to be acting as a "law unto themselves".

In its October 7 judgment, the court described Gautam Budh Nagar Noida ACP Kamlesh Kant and IO Anuj Kumar as highly ignorant of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, procedures and criticised their cavalier approach to the statutory requirements.

It requested the UP director general of police to prepare better police training modules to sensitise officers to civil liberties.

With these observations, a division bench of Justice Atul Sreedharan and Justice Achal Sachdev allowed a habeas corpus petition fil...