UP court orders FIR against cop for illegally detaining man, forging records to justify arrest
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An Uttar Pradesh court has directed the registration of a First Information Report (FIR) against a Station House Officer (SHO) in his own police station, after finding that he had illegally detained a man for over two days and fabricated official records to justify the custody [State of UP v Sanjay Yadav].Addressing the SHO’s conduct and the question of whether his actions were protected as part of official duty, Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM), Kasganj, Khan Zishan Masood made it clear that suc