
The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow bench dismissed a 2020 PIL seeking mandatory upload of all charge sheets on the UP Police website within 24 hours. Citing a Supreme Court ruling, the court stated charge sheets are not public documents and uploading them could violate rights of the accused, victim, and investigating agency. The state government opposed the plea, arguing no law mandates such online publication.
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