Lucknow, July 5 -- : The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has directed the Uttar Pradesh chief secretary to apprise all the district magistrates of the guidelines and directions issued by the high court and the Supreme Court regarding the preparation of a gang chart for the invocation of the Gangsters Act.

With this direction, the court allowed a petition, quashing the impugned FIR registered under Sections 2(b)(i) and 3 of the U.P. Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986, against two petitioners.

A vacation division bench of Justice Alok Mathur and Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal passed the order on June 27 on a petition filed by Shabbir Husain and another person seeking directives to quash the FIR lodged ...