PRAYAGRAJ, Jan. 25 -- Observing that failure to disclose specific grounds of arrest in the arrest memo will amount to dereliction of duty, the Allahabad high court has directed that errant cops must be suspended.

Allowing a habeas corpus writ petition, the court directed that the petitioner be set free and further directed that any police officer in the state who fails to disclose specific grounds of arrest in the arrest memo shall be liable for departmental proceedings also.

Allowing a habeas corpus writ petition filed by one Umang Rastogi and another, a division bench of Justice Siddharth and Justice Jai Krishna Upadhyay observed, "Empty compliance of the law by merely filling out forms without substance amounts to a dereliction of du...