New Delhi, Dec. 25 -- The Supreme Court has pulled up the Uttar Pradesh prison authorities for delaying the release of a Muslim undertrial, charged under the anti-conversion law, by nearly a month despite a bail order passed by the apex court, calling it "unfortunate" that a person's liberty was curtailed on the basis of a trivial technicality. It said the prison administration must focus on the substance of judicial orders rather than looking for trivial errors to deny liberty. The SC underscored the binding nature of the FASTER system, referring to Section 92A of the Uttar Pradesh Jail Manual, 2022.P14
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