The Allahabad High Court has pulled up the Uttar Pradesh Police for the “illegal detention” of an interfaith couple without any order for taking them into custody and directed their release.

In compliance with an order of the high court, police on Saturday produced the couple—taken into custody after they left the court premises on October 15 — before a bench of Justices Salil Kumar Rai and Divesh Chandra Samant.

The bench termed the custody of Shane Ali and Rashmi “illegal” due to the absence of any direction or order to that effect, and directed that the interfaith couple be released forthwith, noting that the woman was a major and police could not have taken her into custody without a direction from a competent authority. The bench said that the move violated her fundamental rights gu

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