Five-Day Police Custody Held Illegal, Release and ₹50,000 Compensation Ordered: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has ordered the immediate release of Kamlesh Kumar, holding that he was kept in illegal police custody from 15 August 2026 until he was produced before a Magistrate on 19 August 2026. The order was passed in Habeas Corpus Writ Petition No. 1222 of 2026 by a bench of Justices Atul Sreedharan and Achal Sachdev. The petitioner had alleged that two armed policemen took him from…