India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday criticised Uttar Pradesh prison authorities for keeping a man in custody for nearly two months after it had granted him bail on 29 April in a case brought under the state’s anti-conversion law. A bench of Justices K.V. Viswanathan and N. Kotiswar Singh ordered the state government to pay the detainee an ad-hoc compensation of Rs 500,000 and directed the principal district and sessions judge of Ghaziabad to conduct an inquiry into the delay. The man was finally released from Ghaziabad District Jail on 24 June after a trial court’s release order issued on 27 May was not executed. The court told the Uttar Pradesh director general of prisons, who appeared via video link, to devise measures to sensitise jail officials about the fundamental right to personal liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution. A report on the inquiry must be filed with the Supreme Court, the bench said.