Amita Srivastava v. Vipin Kumar Rai, Deputy Superintendent of Police A.T.S. Varanasi and Another
Case brief
What is this about?
Contempt Application (Civil) No. 94 of 2025; neutral citation 2025:AHC-LKO:2331; Allahabad High Court Lucknow Bench, Court No. 17; Manish Kumar J.; decided 15.1.2025. Applicant Amita Srivastava; counsel Ajmal Khan and Juned Khan; opposite party Vipin Kumar Rai, Deputy Superintendent of Police A.T.S. Varanasi, and another. Alleged non-compliance with Supreme Court judgment in Pradeep Ram vs. State of Jharkhand and Anr., (2019) 17 SCC 326 — arrest of an already-bailed accused for additionally added offence(s) requires an order to arrest from the court which granted bail. Applicant had been arrested, filed bail application and obtained bail per that judgment; relied-upon case law was not shown to respondent no. 2 at the time of arrest; contempt application dismissed.
What did the court decide?
The applicant had not shown the case law relied upon in the present contempt application to respondent no. 2 at the time of his arrest.