The Supreme Court came down heavily on the Uttar Pradesh Police for their casual handling of proceedings after it emerged that even the sub-inspector accompanying the accused had no knowledge of his criminal antecedents in a matter arising from a 1982 appeal against an Allahabad High Court judgment.

The Bench also expressed surprise that the State's counsel appeared equally uninformed. When asked to provide details of the respondent's past cases, the counsel conceded that he would need to “take instructions.” Recording its disapproval, the Bench of Justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and N Kotiswar Singh remarked that it was unclear how the State could have filed the appeal without basic information on the respondent's antecedents or the outcome of previous cases. The judges noted that the su

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