PRAYAGRAJ, Oct. 19 -- The Allahabad high court has directed the Judicial Training and Research Institute (JTRI), Lucknow, to prepare and disseminate training modules for magistrates to ensure due application of mind in remand proceedings.

The directions followed repeated instances of magistrates routinely authorising police remand without properly scrutinising arrest memos and remand applications.

A division bench of justices Atul Sreedharan and Achal Sachdev, in an order dated October 14, said magistrates could not take shelter behind an overload of judicial work while dealing with remand matters, which directly concern the fundamental rights guaranteed under Articles 21 and 22 of the Constitution.

The court also warned that it would ...