India, June 11 -- The Allahabad High Court has taken serious note of the illegal eight-day police custody of a man and directed the state government to give a compensation of Rs two lakh to him within six weeks. The court also ordered that the amount shall be recovered by the state government from the assistant commissioner of police, Bara, Prayagraj, after conducting disciplinary inquiry against him within three months.

Hearing a habeas corpus writ petition filed on behalf of Mansoor Ahmed, who hails from Prayagraj, a division bench comprising Justices Siddharth and Vinai Kumar Dwivedi directed the commissioner of police (CP), commissionerate Prayagraj to file the compliance report of the order on or before September 14.

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