PRAYAGRAJ, April 8 -- The Allahabad High Court has stayed, until further orders, the arrest of suspended Banda Jail superintendent Anil Kumar Gautam, who was booked for the allegedly illegal releasing a Noida scrap mafia in January without any court order.

While granting interim protection, the court has allowed police to continue investigations but restrained it from filing reports before the jurisdictional magistrate until further orders.

A division bench of justices Rajeev Mishra and Satya Veer Singh issued the order while hearing petitions from the suspended officials seeking quashing of the FIR and protection from arrest.

The court has issued notices to all respondents, including the state government, granting six weeks to file co...