Lucknow, Nov. 2 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has asked the state whether a statue can be installed on a public road or land, and if it cannot be done, then what is the procedure for removing or relocating it. The court's query came after it took suo motu cognizance of the installation of a former MLA's statue on a public road in Sultanpur district. A division bench of Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Rajeev Bharti on October 31 ordered the Sultanpur district magistrate to file an affidavit with a response to its query, and posted the matter for hearing on November 25. The high court said it frequently receives petitions seeking the installation or removal of statues on public roads or government land. The matter pertains to a statue of former MLA Chandrabhadhra Singh, erected on a Public Works Department (PWD) road in Sultanpur. The PIL requested that since the statue was built on public land, it must be removed. In compliance with the court's previous order, the state government on Friday submitted an affidavit stating that the Sultanpur municipality had installed two statues on PWD land. When the court inquired about the process of removing the statues, it found nothing in the affidavit filed by the Sultanpur district magistrate. Expressing displeasure at this, the court ordered him to submit a fresh affidavit detailing the process of installing and removing the statues on government land. Meanwhile, HC has asked its office to make the Sultanpur municipality the opposite party and asked its executive officer as to under what rule, the statue of the former MLA was installed on PWD land....