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Court orders removal of ‘name and shame’ hoardings
March 12 , 2020
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- Allahabad High Court has directed the Lucknow administration to remove forthwith the controversial ‘name and shame’ hoardings.
- These contains the names of those arrested during protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
- The police put up several hoardings across Lucknow identifying those accused of violence during the protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
- The Allahabad High Court had taken Suo motu notice of this act.
- It violates the Article 21 of the Constitution of India.
- Also, no power is available in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 to police or the Executive to display personal records of a person to public at large.
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