PRAYAGRAJ, April 3 -- The Allahabad high court has sought an explanation from the additional chief secretary (home), UP, regarding the non-mentioning of the usual honorific 'Hon'ble' before the name of a Union minister whose name figured in an FIR lodged in Mathura last year.

A bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Tarun Saxena passed the order in a petition filed by Harshit Sharma and 2 others seeking quashing of an FIR registered against them at Highway police station, Mathura, bearing case crime number 1197 of 2025.

The court in its order dated March 31 observed, "The Additional Chief Secretary, (Home), Government of U.P., Lucknow will explain on his affidavit why in the FIR the Hon'ble Union Minister, whose name figures, has not bee...