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Allahabad High Court Recommends FIR Against Lawyers Involved In Courtroom Violence, Vandalism; Initiates Contempt Action

The Allahabad High Court has found that the acts of lawyers who allegedly assaulted State law officers, court staff and security personnel and vandalized a courtroom on October 28 over alleged ill-treatment of lawyers by Justice Ajay Bhanot, prima facie constitute criminal contempt.The Court also requested the Chief Justice to consider issuing directions for the registration of FIRs against...

Private CCTV Cameras Cannot Be Positioned To Interfere With Neighbours Privacy: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has observed that private CCTV cameras cannot be installed or positioned in a manner that interferes with a neighbour's privacy.A Bench of Justice Ajit Kumar and Justice Garima Prashad made the observation while disposing of a writ petition filed by one Yogendra Maurya, who was aggrieved by the positioning of a CCTV camera by his neighbour. It was his case that...

Missing Interview Records: Allahabad High Court Directs KGMU To Calculate Average Marks And Declare Candidates Result

The Allahabad High Court has directed King George's Medical University (KGMU) to calculate average interview marks from the surviving records of the same selection if the petitioner's marks cannot be verified, and then declare the result of her candidature.The Court also observed that a recruitment process, once undertaken and candidates have participated in its prescribed stages, must be...

Summary Revenue Proceedings Require Greater Adherence To Procedure: Allahabad High Court Sets Aside Land Map Correction Orders

The Allahabad High Court has held that revenue authorities acting under Section 28 of the U.P. Land Revenue Act, 1901 cannot, while correcting a village map, act on a disputed measurement and take away part of one plot to make good an alleged shortfall in the plot next to it. The summary character of such proceedings, it held, calls for closer compliance with the statutory procedure, not...

UPTET | Allahabad High Court Orders Exclusion Of Questions With Two Correct Options, Equal Benefit To All Candidates

The Allahabad High Court has held that where the examining authority itself accepts two options as correct in a multiple-choice question requiring the candidate to mark a single answer, the question must be excluded from evaluation. It held that the benefit cannot be confined to candidates who happened to mark one of the two accepted options.The dispute concerned Question Nos. 36 and 37 of...