Lucknow, Feb. 6 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on Thursday sought a reply from the additional chief secretary (home) and the Uttar Pradesh director general of police on the issue of 1.08 lakh missing persons in Uttar Pradesh.

The court directed the two officials to appear before it through video conferencing on March 23, the next date of hearing on the public interest litigation filed on the issue.

It also sought a justification for not taking proper action by the authorities in these cases.

The court also directed the ACS (home) and DGP to file their personal affidavits by that date dealing with the said issues. It also sought more details and records with data pertaining to the missing persons.

Hearing the PIL regi...