Noida techie death: HC orders release of realtor
Noida, Feb. 7 -- The Allahabad High Court on Thursday ordered the release of the director of a real estate company arrested in connection with the drowning death of a 27-year-old software engineer at a water-filled excavation plot in Noida's Sector 150, ruling that the arrest was made in violation of mandatory legal procedure.
Abhay Kumar, the promoter and director of MZ Wiztown Ltd, was released from judicial custody after a bench quashed his arrest and remand orders. The court found that police failed to comply with Clause 13 of the arrest memo, which requires that an accused person be informed of the grounds for arrest and be provided a copy of the memo at the time of detention.
The bench, headed by justices Siddharth and Jai Krishna Upa...
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