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Flashpoint Ayodhya: VHP leader Ashok Singhal, 957 others released by UP govt

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh government today released 958 VHP workers including its leader Ashok Singhal while shifting Pravin Togadia and some others from Faizabad to Etah, a day after they were taken into custody for taking

PTI Updated on: August 26, 2013 21:44 IST


About security arrangements, Vishwakarma said that borders of Ayodhya will remain sealed till further orders.



Earlier in the day, the Lucknow Bench of Allahabad High Court directed the state government to release VHP leaders Rambhadracharya, Singhal and Togadia in case they have been detained in violation of section 151 (2) of the CrPC .

A division bench comprising justices Imtiyaz Murtaza and Devendra Kumar Upadhaya passed this order on a habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of the three through a local counsel Ranjana Agnihotri.

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