India, Nov. 8 -- The Allahabad High Court has criticised the Uttar Pradesh State Police over an unlawful detention case. The court described it as a routine violation of people's fundamental rights. It also ordered the police to release the petitioner from custody.

A division of Justices Atul Sreeedharan and Anchal Sachdev took the habeas corpus case involving Ahmad, a resident of Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh who was unlawfully taken into custody on September 05. According to his daughter, the police and SOG officials in plain clothes took her father into custody, but the former arrest was only shown on September 07 2026.

"The situation that exists in the State of Uttar Pradesh relating to civil liberty is shameful, to say the least. The polic...