The
Allahabad High Court on Monday asked the
Lucknow district magistrate to take down the hoardings it had put up to name and shame those accused by the state police of vandalism during the anti-CAA protests in Lucknow.
The posters were put up by the
Yogi Adityanath government asking the accused to pay compensation for damage to public property during the anti-CAA protests in December.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Govind Mathur and Justice Ramesh Sinha gave the order a day after it took up the matter suo moto.
The court has ordered that the posters should be removed before March 16. The court will again hear the matter on March 16," lawyer SN Naseem told ANI.
Posters had come up at major road crossings in Lucknow late on Thursday night on the directions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, PTI quoted an official of saying.
In Lucknow, around 50 people were identified by police as alleged rioters and were served notices.
Activist-politician Sadaf Jafar and former IPS officer S R Darapuri were among those whose photos appeared on the posters.