Jharkhand HC pulls up police for not following arrest norms
The Hindu
APP Rajneesh Vardhan was allegedly arrested by Patna police with help of their Jharkhand counterparts on November 7
The Jharkhand High Court recently pulled up police officials of Bihar and Jharkhand for “not following the norms for arresting a person” and asked the Jharkhand Chief Secretary to be a party in the case.
The court was hearing a habeas corpus petition seeking to know the whereabouts of Additional Public Prosecutor (APP) Rajneesh Vardhan of the Jharkhand High Court, who was allegedly arrested by the Patna police, in assistance with their Jharkhand counterparts on November 7 from his residence in Ranchi. A Division Bench of the Jharkhand High Court comprising Justices Sujit Narayan Prasad and Ananda Sen questioned the Bihar and Jharkhand police officials for not “following the norms established in law for arresting a person” and asked them to explain the reasons.
Mr. Vardhan’s wife Sweta Priyadarshini had filed the writ petition saying that “despite our repeated requests, policemen did not inform why her husband was being taken away or in what case”.