PRAYAGRAJ, July 22 -- The Allahabad high court has delivered a split verdict on whether courts can issue directions to curb "bulldozer justice", with one judge proposing a two-year bar on demolition of an accused individual's house after registration of a first information report (FIR), while the other held that such a blanket direction cannot be issued. The matter has now been referred to the Chief Justice for consideration by a third judge. In the order that came on Monday, justice Atul Sreedharan observed that the state was demolishing the houses of persons accused of offences "to satiate the perceived blood lust of a society fed on a staple diet of bulldozer justice". "The state is certain that the society suffers from collective schade...