Lucknow, May 3 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has upheld an FIR under the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986 and dismissed a petition filed by Mohit Yadav, the alleged gang leader in a Rs.6.8 lakh robbery in Lucknow's Vikas Nagar area, where a jeweller's employee was targeted by bike-borne assailants while returning after collecting payments last year. Thirteen accused of the 'Dakaiti gang' were named in the FIR.

While dismissing the plea, a bench of Justice Abdul Moin and Justice Pramod Kumar Srivastava, in an order dated April 20, held that the statutory requirement of a "joint meeting" between police officials for approving a gang chart is satisfied through collective deliberati...