The Allahabad Excessive Court docket has directed the Director Normal of Police (DGP), Uttar Pradesh, to seem personally earlier than it and clarify why law enforcement officials are exhibiting ‘reluctance’ to obey/adjust to orders handed by the Court docket.
A bench of Justice Sameer Jain handed the path whereas listening to a bail software filed by Pushpraj Singh alias Babloo in a case involving homicide allegations.
The Court docket famous that on July 16, 2026, the State had been directed to file an in depth counter-affidavit regarding a discrepancy between the alleged time of the incident and the timing mirrored in CCTV footage dated June 21, 2025.
Nevertheless, the State had not filed the counter-affidavit regardless of the path.
When the matter got here up, the Further Authorities Advocate, Dr SB Maurya, knowledgeable the Court docket that he had despatched letters twice on this regard, however regardless of these efforts, nobody appeared to have filed the counter-affidavit.
The Excessive Court docket took a critical view of the State’s failure to adjust to its path. “That is the utter disrespect of this Court docket“, Justice Jain remarked.
Justice Jain additional remarked that the Court docket was now going through such an issue “very regularly,” by which law enforcement officials seem reluctant to adjust to orders handed by the Excessive Court docket.
The Court docket stated:
“It displays, law enforcement officials are reluctant to conform the orders handed by this Court docket and on account of their perspective bail purposes that are of homicide instances stay pending for appreciable time frame“.
In opposition to this backdrop, the Bench directed the Director Normal of Police, State of Uttar Pradesh, to seem in individual earlier than the Court docket.
The DGP has been directed to clarify as to “why now a days, his officers are reluctant to obey/comply the orders handed by this Court docket”.
The matter has been listed for August 24, 2026, at 2 PM within the day by day trigger checklist.
The Court docket has additionally directed the Advocate Normal to stay current on the subsequent date.
The Registry was directed to speak the order to the DGP inside 24 hours for compliance.
Case title – Pushpraj Singh @ Babloo vs. State of U.P
