Allahabad High Court
No Instant Rewards For UP Cops; Mandatory FIR & Medical Aid For Injured: Allahabad High Court Tightens Noose On 'Encounter Culture'
In a significant order passed yesterday, the Allahabad High Court has effectively tightened the noose on the 'Police Encounter Culture' in the state of Uttar Pradesh by issuing and reiterating certain strict guidelines expressly prohibiting instant promotions or gallantry awards for police officers immediately following an encounter with an accused/criminal. In its 11-page order,...
UP Cops Resort To 'Half Encounters' To Get Fame, Appreciation: High Court Warns SP/SSPs Of Contempt If SC's Guidelines Violated
In a significant order passed earlier today, the Allahabad High Court has issued strict 6-point guidelines to be followed by the police officials in the cases of grievous injury to an accused in a police encounter. A bench of Justice Arun Kumar Deshwal also clarified that the District Police Chiefs, including Superintendents of Police (SP), Senior Superintendents of Police...
'Chop Off The Deadwood': High Court Quashes 1991 Vidhan Sabha Ruckus Case; Urges UP Govt To Frame Policy For Stale Litigations
Observing that the judiciary is 'starved' of the resources to meet the growing explosion of litigation, the Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) on Wednesday quashed criminal proceedings pending for over 34 years related to an alleged ruckus at the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. The Court termed such stale trials a 'futile' exercise and called upon the State Government to "chop off...
Allahabad High Court Refuses Relief To 'News18' Journalists Over Alleged Telecast Claiming UP STF IG Released Criminal For Money
The Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) on Thursday dismissed an application filed by the Executive Editor and other journalists of News18 Channel challenging a summoning order issued against them in a criminal defamation case filed by senior IPS officer Amitabh Yash. Yash, who is currently serving as Additional Director General (ADG), STF and Law & Order, Uttar Pradesh, had filed...
S.138 NI Act | Only Payee Or Holder In Due Course Can File Complaint; 3rd Party Lacks Locus Even If Transaction Affects Him: Allahabad HC
The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday clarified that a complaint under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881, is not maintainable by a third party even if the transaction affects him and that the same must be filed either by the payee or the holder in due course of the cheque. The bench of Justice Samit Gopal added that an authorised representative of the payee or holder...
Cyber Crime Cases | 'No Blanket Bank A/C Freezing; Inform Magistrate Within 24 Hours': Allahabad HC Issues Strict 5-Point Protocol For Cops
The Allahabad High Court has held that a blanket notice by the police to the bank to freeze a particular account, without indicating the amount (on which lien is being sought) would be illegal and arbitrary.A bench of Justice Shekhar B Saraf and Justice Manjive Shukla added that investigating Officer is required to intimate the jurisdictional Magistrate about the same within 24 hours.The...
Allahabad High Court Rejects PIL Questioning Lowering Of NEET-PG 2025-26 Cut-Offs
The Allahabad High Court today rejected a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea challenging the decision of the National Board of Examinations in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) to reduce the qualifying cut-off percentiles for NEET-PG 2025-26 to zero percentile and a score of minus 40 for certain categories.A bench of Chief Justice Arun Bhansali and Justice Kshitij Shailendra rejected the PIL...
Jhansi Medical College Fire | Enquiry Pending For Over 1 Year: High Court Stays Suspension Of Ex-Chief Medical Superintendent
The Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench) recently stayed the operation of the suspension order passed against Dr Sunita Rathaur, the former Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS) of Maharani Laxmibai Medical College, Jhansi.The interim relief comes more than a year after her suspension order was issued following the unfortunate fire at the college's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) that...
Sambhal Violence : Days After FIR Ordered Against Cops, High Court Grants Interim Anticipatory Bail To Man Who Alleged Police Shot Him
The Allahabad High Court today granted interim anticipatory bail to Mohd Alam, a youth, on whose father's plea a CJM Court in Sambhal had recently ordered the registration of an FIR against certain police officials for allegedly firing upon him during the November 2024 violence. Though the applicant's father had argued before the CJM Court that his son was a victim of unprovoked...
Mahakumbh Stampede | Allahabad High Court Sets 30-Day Deadline To Decide Compensation To Victim's Kin; Warns Of 'Serious' View
The Allahabad High Court recently refused to further delay the compensation claim of a Kumbh Mela stampede victim pending the final report of the State's Inquiry Commission. In a stern order, the HC ordered the Mela Authority and the Commission to finalise the field by the husband of the deceased, who had succumbed to the injuries during the stampede, within 30 days. A bench...
Don't Defer Framing Charges Unless Order Rejecting Discharge Plea Is Stayed: Allahabad High Court Directs UP Courts
The Allahabad High Court has directed the trial courts across the state of Uttar Pradesh that the framing of charges must not be deferred merely because an accused has filed a revision petition or appeal against the order rejecting his discharge application. A bench of Justice Chawan Prakash observed that the trial courts are under a "statutory duty" to frame charges if a plea...
Allahabad High Court Weekly Round-Up : January 19 To January 25, 2026
Shreya Pandey vs. State Of U.P. And 2 Others 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 26 Victim X in Fir No.048 of 2025 P.s. Katra Bazar Distt. Gonda Thru.next Best Friend Her Mother Versus State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Social Welfare Lko. and 2 others 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 27 M/S Wizitec Private Limited Versus State Of Uttar Pradesh And 3 Others 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 28 C/M Madarsa Ahle Sunnat...