PRAYAGRAJ, Oct. 20 -- The Allahabad high court has directed the Judicial Training and Research Institute (JTRI), Lucknow, to prepare and disseminate training modules for magistrates to ensure due application of mind in remand proceedings. The directions followed repeated instances of magistrates routinely authorising police remand without properly scrutinising arrest memos and remand applications. A division bench of justices Atul Sreedharan and Achal Sachdev, in an order dated October 14, said magistrates could not take shelter behind an overload of judicial work while dealing with remand matters, which directly concern the fundamental rights guaranteed under Articles 21 and 22 of the Constitution. The court also warned that it would take serious note of any such abdication of duty in future and could recommend administrative action against erring Magistrates. The observations came while allowing a habeas corpus petition filed by Arvind Pandey and another, challenging Pandey's custody in a cyber-fraud case registered in Kushinagar district. The court found Pandey's arrest memo grossly deficient in material particulars and ordered that he be released forthwith....