Overview

• The court found that re-registering four FIRs—three from 2023 and one from 2025—under the stringent law reflected arbitrariness and compounded a 2024 invocation.
• Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal granted Manshad alias Sona interim bail on furnishing a personal bond and two sureties until the next hearing.
• The bench directed the district magistrate, senior superintendent of police and Khalapar station house officer to personally account for their alleged misconduct and negligence.
• Copies of the order have been circulated to the Uttar Pradesh DGP and home department to ensure compliance with judicial instructions.
• Following a Supreme Court directive, the state government issued detailed parameters and a checklist in December 2024 that have since been adopted into binding guidelines for invoking the Act.