PRAYAGRAJ, June 1 -- The Allahabad high court on Friday directed the state government to pay Rs. 5 lakh as compensation to a man who was arrested and kept in 'illegal detention' by UP Police despite the HC's interim order staying his arrest.

The court further directed that disciplinary proceedings be initiated against the concerned SHO for "dereliction in the due discharge of official duty, violation of the order passed by this Court and commission of an act of indiscipline".

The bench comprising justices Siddharth and Vinai Kumar Dwivedi was hearing a habeas corpus petition moved by Anil Soni.

According to the petitioner, an FIR under Section 69 (sexual intercourse by employing deceitful means) and other sections of the BNS, along wit...