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The State of Uttar Pradesh has filed an appeal against the order passed by Allahabad High Court bench of Justice Siddhartha granting anticipatory bail to a conman till January 3, 2022 on account of threat to life due to CoVID. 

SGI Tushar Mehta mentioned the appeal before the bench of Justice(s) Vineet Saran & BR Gavai.

"We have filed an appeal against the Allahabad High Court order granting Anticipatory Bail to a conman till January 3, 2022 on account of threat to life due to CoVID", said SGI 

The matter is expected to be heard next week.

Recently, the Allahabad High Court had granted anticipatory bail to a person who sought pre-arrest on apprehension of death in case of arrested and being put in the prison system in relation to a case registered u/s 420, 467, 468, 471, 506, 406 IPC.

The Court while allowing anticipatory bail had observed that,

“The Election Commission, the Higher Courts and the Government failed to fathom the disastrous consequences of permitting the elections in few States and the Panchayat elections in the State of Uttar Pradesh. The infection of novel corona virus, which had not reached the village population in its first wave of novel corona virus spread in the last year, has now spread to the villages.”

“The State Government is having tough time in controlling the spread of novel corona virus in urban areas and it would be very difficult to conduct the test, detect and treat the village population found suffering from novel corona virus. The State lacks preparation and resources for the same at present. On account of the recent panchayat elections in the State large number of FIR's have been lodged in the villages.” the Court also said.