PRAYAGRAJ, Feb. 6 -- The Allahabad high court on Thursday ordered the release of Abhay Kumar, director of MZ Wiztown Planners, who was arrested last month in connection with the death of software engineer Yuvraj Mehta, 27, who drowned after his car fell into a waterlogged pit near a construction site in Noida last month.

A bench comprising justice Siddharth and justice Jai Krishna Upadhyay allowed the habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of Kumar. The bench observed that Kumar's arrest violated the high court's recent judgement in Umang Rastogi and Another vs State of U.P. and 3 Others, specifically Clause 13 of the arrest memo. The clause mandates that the police record specific details justifying an arrest, including material demonst...