Lucknow, Nov 4 (PTI) The Allahabad High Court has imposed a cost of Rs 75,000 on the Uttar Pradesh government for continuing the probe into a kidnapping case despite the alleged victim's statement before a magistrate that she had gone to Delhi of her own free will to meet her daughter.

A division bench comprising Justice Abdul Moin and Justice Babita Rani passed the order on a petition filed by Umed alias Ubaid Khan and others, seeking quashing of the FIR against them lodged in the Bahraich district under section 140 of BNS, pertaining to kidnapping for murder.

The bench directed that Rs 50,000 of the imposed cost be paid to petitioner Umed, who was arrested on September 18 and has been lodged in jail since then.

The remaining Rs 25,000 will go to the legal aid services of the high cour

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