prayagraj taking a serious note of the disclosure that an absconding life convict is active on social media the allahabad high court has directed the principal secretary department of home affairs uttar pradesh to file an affidavit stating complete details relating to the efforts made by the state to ensure arrest of the convicted absconderhearing a pil filed by one abhishek som a division bench comprising chief justice govind mathur and justice siddhartha varma directed to list the pil on by the next date of hearing ie november 23in the pil the petitioner alleged that one badan singh baddo convicted for life term imprisonment absconded from custody on march 28 2019 but no efforts have been made to arrest himthe petitioner also placed before the court certain documents to substantiate the fact that the convict is regularly operating his social media pages including a facebook account it was also stated that the absconder is having political connections and only because of that no action is being taken against himhowever the state counsel stated that a special task force stf has already been constituted to arrest the absconding convict baddothe court passed this order on november 2