Hyderabad, April 4 -- The Allahabad High Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to explain why its police force failed to use the honorifics "Honourable" and "Mr" before the name of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP and former Union Minister Anurag Thakur in a first information report (FIR) filed last December in Mathura district. 

The court described the lapse as a "breach of protocol."

A division bench, while hearing a petition arising from the case, directed the Additional Chief Secretary of the Home Department to file an affidavit addressing the omission, asking why the Union Minister "has not been described with the usual honorific of Hon'ble, and at one point, referred to just by his name without even appending a 'Mr.'...