Allahabad High Court
Police Assume Abuses Will Go Unnoticed: Allahabad HC Awards 25K Compensation To Man Over 24-Hour Illegal Detention
The Allahabad High Court recently observed that police officials persistently violate citizens' rights, believing that their abuses will simply go unnoticed.The Court added that cops think that, out of a thousand violations or more, hardly one citizen would come forward to enforce their rights and hold them accountable. With this scathing observation, a bench of Justice JJ Munir and...
Cops Sitting & Twiddling Thumbs: Allahabad HC Slams Quality Of UP Police Investigations, Raps ACS (Home); Here's Why
In yet another strongly worded order, the Allahabad High Court has fiercely criticised the Uttar Pradesh Police, this time by questioning and castigating the very 'quality' of the criminal investigations in the state. The Court also came down heavily on the Additional Chief Secretary (Home) and Senior IAS Officer Sanjay Prasad for filing a "completely casual affidavit...
'Bound By Supreme Court Order': Oudh Bar Association To Decide On 30% Women's Quota At July AGM, Allahabad HC Told
The Oudh Bar Association (OBA) recently submitted before the Allahabad High Court that it is bound by the Supreme Court's 2025 direction mandating a 30% reservation for women as office-bearers or executive members in Bar Associations. Appearing before a bench of Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Manjive Shukla, the Association's office bearers submitted that a final decision on which...
'Loyalty Towards Rulers, Not Constitution; Rule Of Law Treated As Inconvenience': Allahabad HC Tears Into UP Police, Bureaucracy
In the third such order passed this week, which contains strong observations on the state of affairs in the Uttar Pradesh bureaucracy, the Allahabad High Court once again delivered a damning indictment of the State's administrative machinery.A bench of Justice Diwakar also stated that officers, including police officials, are loyal to the ruling dispensation rather than to the Constitution....
'Encounter Killings, Selective Crackdowns': Allahabad HC Slams UP Police Over Targeted Actions; Flags Misuse Of Gangsters Act
While quashing criminal proceedings initiated against 3 family members over a civil dispute, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday delivered a scathing reprimand to the Uttar Pradesh Police for the targeted use of the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986.A bench of Justice Vinod Diwakar also flagged how the encounter killings and selective crackdowns...
“Shocking”: Allahabad High Court Waives Interest Levied During Pendency Of Time Extension Application By UPSIDC
The Allahabad High Court expressed shock over levy of interest by Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Corporation for a period of 8 years for which time extension application filed by the allotee was kept pending by it.Noting that the petitioner allottee also did not take steps towards ensuring that the application was decided, the bench of Justice Mahesh Chandra Tripathi and...
Allahabad HC Grants Bail In Rape & Murder Case With 'Heavy Heart', Slams UP Govt Over Poor Forensic Lab Infra
The Allahabad High Court recently granted bail to an accused in a rape and murder case with a "heavy heart and great pain" due to the lack of proper scientific evidence. Expressing serious concerns over the state's Forensic Science Laboratories (FSL) infrastructure, a bench of Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal remarked thus: "…outdated machine as well as incomplete infrastructure...
Allahabad HC Comes To Aid Of AIBE-20 Candidate 'Failed' Over Bonafide OMR Mistake As BCI Admits He 'Passed'
The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday directed the Bar Council of India (BCI) to manually verify the OMR answer sheet of a candidate who was declared 'failed' in the All-India Bar Examination-XX due to an inadvertent omission in filling his question booklet code. A bench of Justice Shekhar B Saraf and Justice Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary intervened in the writ plea filed by candidate Love...
Allahabad HC Stays Arrest Of News24 Journalist Accused Of Promoting Enmity, Defaming Municipal Corp Over X Post
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday granted interim protection from arrest to News24 Reporter Shahnawaz in connection with an FIR registered against him in Moradabad for reposting a video on X (formerly Twitter) allegedly defaming the Municipal Corporation.A bench of Justice Vikram D Chauhan and Justice Lakshmi Kant Shukla directed that no coercive action be taken against the journalist until...