Lucknow, Oct 31 (PTI) The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court on Friday asked the state whether a statue can be installed on a public road or land, and if it cannot be, then what is the procedure for removing or relocating it.

The court's query came on a suo motu cognisance of the installation of a statue of a former MLA on a public road in Sultanpur.

A bench of Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Rajiv Bharti on Friday ordered the Sultanpur district magistrate to file an affidavit responding to its query, and posted the matter for hearing for November 25.

The matter was first raised in a public interest litigation, which was dismissed by the court, which said it may have been filed for political reasons.

The court later took suo motu cognisance of the matter, saying it frequently rece

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