Allahabad High Court: Detaining relatives to put pressure on an accused to surrender is illegal.

Allahabad High Court: It is illegal to detain a person's family members to put pressure on them to surrender, the Allahabad High Court stated. The court made this comment while accepting the habeas corpus petition of Arvind Yadav, a resident of Jaunpur, by a division bench comprising Justices Atul Sreedharan and Divesh Chandra Samant. The court said that it is illegal to detain a person's family members to put pressure on them to surrender.