Allahabad, Feb 25: The Allahabad High Court today sought Uttar Pradesh government's reply to a writ petition filed by jailed Independent legislator Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya and MLC Akshay Pratap Singh.
Justice S S Kulshrestha, while asking the government to file its counter-affidavit to their petition challenging their judicial remand under the gangsters act, posted hearing in the matter for March 10. The petitioners contended that the orders of their judicial remand were illegal and without jurisdiction as no case could be made out against them on the basis of an FIR registered in Kunda police station under the gangsters act last year.
Earlier, sub-divisional magistrate, Kunda and special judge (gangsters act) Allahabad had remanded the duo to judicial custody under the gangsters act. Bureau Report