India, July 16 -- LUCKNOW The Uttar Pradesh government has informed the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court that it is preparing a stringent law to ban the manufacture, sale and use of lethal 'Chinese manjha'.

The state said compensation for victims is also being considered under the proposed legislation, likely to be named the UP Lethal Manjha (Prohibition of Manufacture, Sale and Use) Act.

It informed the court that Chinese Manjha is now available online and there is a newspaper report to this effect. "Let learned counsel for the opposite parties look into this aspect of the matter also," the court directed.

A division bench of Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Manjive Shukla was also informed that amendments to the Police Act are ...