Rush Hour: UP fined Rs 5 lakh as authorities delay bail, Iran’s nuclear programme ‘intact’ and more

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The Supreme Court has directed the Uttar Pradesh government to pay Rs 5 lakh as compensation to a man who was not released from the Ghaziabad district jail for nearly two months after getting bail. The man, booked under the Indian Penal Code and the 2021 Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, was granted bail by the top court on April 29.

However, he was not released due to a clerical error in his bail order. The man was released on Tuesday after the Supreme Court called the jail authority’s actions a “travesty of justice”.

The court on Wednesday ordered a judicial inquiry into the lapses that led to the delayed release. It observed that personal liberty “cannot be denied on useless technicalities and irrelevant errors”. Read on.

The United States’ airstrikes on nuclear facilities in Iran did not destroy its nuclear programme and only set it back by a few months, a preliminary intelligence assessment from Washington has claimed. This contradicts President Donald Trump’s statement that American attacks had “completely obliterated” Iran’s nuclear sites in Fordo, Natanz and Esfahan.

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