PRAYAGRAJ, Sept. 13 -- The Allahabad high court has given a month's time more to the Prayagraj police to search for high court lawyer, Jai Shankar Upadhyay, who has been missing for the last three years and his whereabouts are unknown. Hearing a habeas corpus writ filed by Abhaykant Upadhyay, brother of the missing lawyer, a division bench comprising justices Salil Kumar Rai and Zafeer Ahmed said, "The case was registered in 2022 and it has been three years but the corpus has not yet been traced". While fixing October 27, 2025 for the next hearing, the court directed that on this date, the additional government advocate shall submit a progress report in the investigation. The court further directed that the deputy commissioner of police (crime), Prayagraj commissionerate, the additional deputy commissioner of police (crime), Prayagraj, and the assistant commissioner of police (crime), Prayagraj, under whose leadership the said investigation team is to work shall be personally present in the court on the next date of hearing. The brother of the missing lawyer demanded that his brother be searched for and be produced before the court. On behalf of the state government, additional government advocates - Paritosh Malviya told the court that an SIT has been formed under the leadership of assistant commissioner of police (crime) to investigate the case and suspects are being questioned. The police had sought permission for a narco test from the magistrate court but did not get the permission, they added. At the same time, the petitioner said that the police had been harassing the petitioner in the name of investigation. Jai Shankar Upadhyay, a resident of Ponghat Ka Pul in Dhoomanganj area of Prayagraj, had been missing and a case of a missing person was lodged on September 3, 2022. Later, the police registered a case of kidnapping (case crime no- 360 of 2022) under section 365 (kidnapping) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and started investigation, which is still going on....