The Allahabad High Court today asked the Centre and Uttar Pradesh government to file their replies on a petition challenging the detention of two Kashmiri youths who were picked up by the Anti-Terrorist Squad of the state police while travelling by train last week.
A division bench comprising Justice Dharnidhar Jha and Justice Ramesh Sinha directed the Centre and the state to file
their counter affidavits within a month and ordered that the matter be listed for further hearing after the court reopens after summer vacation on July 2.
The order was passed on a habeas corpus petition filed by Tahir Madani, Director of Azamgarh-based Jamiatul Falah
Madarsa who had submitted two of the seminary’s students Mohd Wasim Butt and Sajjad Butt, both of them hailing from Kashmir,had boarded the Delhi-bound Kaifiyat Express on May 24 but were “illegally” detained by an ATS team when the train reached Aligarh next morning.
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