Lucknow, Jan. 8 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed in 2020 that sought a directive to the Uttar Pradesh Police to upload every charge sheet on its official website within 24 hours of concluding an investigation.

A division bench of Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary passed the order on January 5 in response to the PIL filed by one Mohd Irfan Siddiqui, seeking a direction to the state authorities to upload each charge sheet in all the police stations across the state on the official website - uppolice.gov.in.

The high court relied on the Supreme Court's judgment in the case of 'Saurav Das vs Union of India 2023', wherein it was observed that copies of...