Allahabad High Court
Allahabad High Court Allows Women Lawyers Nominated After Bar Association Polls To Continue, Directs Bye-Law Amendment For 30% Representation
The Allahabad High Court has declined to quash the elections to the executive body of the Civil Bar Association, Bulandshahr, in which no woman lawyer was elected as an office bearer, holding that the requirement of 30% representation for women stood fulfilled by the nomination of four women advocates to the body within four days of the poll.The public interest litigation, filed by an...
Disciplinary Action Can't Rest On Unrecorded Oral Directions: Allahabad High Court Quashes UP Tax Officer's Punishment
The Allahabad High Court has set aside the penalty of censure and withholding of one salary increment with cumulative effect imposed on a State Tax officer, holding that a charge of not complying with oral directions issued in video conferencing meetings cannot be sustained where neither the dates of those meetings nor their minutes were placed on record. It held that such an order rests...
UP Govt Must Wake Up To Citizens' Medical Needs: Allahabad High Court Orders Inquiry Into Newborn's Death After Hospital Run
The Allahabad High Court has observed that it is "high time" that the Uttar Pradesh Government "woke up to the medical needs of the citizenry of the State", while directing an inquiry into the circumstances leading to the death of a newborn child who died within 24 hours of birth after being taken from one hospital to another. A Bench of Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Manjive Shukla directed...
'Plague Of Custodial Death Does Not Show Any Sign Of Abating': Allahabad High Court Denies Anticipatory Bail To RPF Personnel
It appears that although COVID-19 pandemic had run its course but the plague of custodial death does not show any sign of abating : High Court said
S. 180 BNSS | Allahabad High Court Asks DGP To Make Audio-Video Recording Of Witness Statements Mandatory For IOs
The Allahabad High Court has directed the Director General of Police (DGP), Uttar Pradesh, to consider making audio-video recording of statements recorded under Section 180 BNSS 'mandatory', observing that such a step would make criminal investigations more transparent and fair. A bench of Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal passed the direction while dealing with a bail application filed by...
Former Cabinet Minister's Status Can't Substitute Proof Of Income In Motor Accident Claim: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that the profession or social standing of a person killed in a motor accident cannot by itself determine his income for the purpose of computing compensation. It held that income has to be established by evidence on record and that an Income Tax Return, though relevant, does not by itself prove the income disclosed in it.Justice Anil Kumar-X held,“Thus, even...
Allahabad High Court Frees Major Woman Detained Over Interfaith Marriage, Says Father Can't Force Her To Live With Him
The Allahabad High Court has set a major woman, who said she was illegally detained by her father after marrying a man of a different religion, at liberty, while observing that an adult woman has the legal right to choose whom she wants to live with.A bench of Justice Subhash Vidyarthi thus allowed the habeas corpus petition filed by one Princy through her husband/next friend Gurpreet Singh....
UP Awas Vikas Act Primarily For Housing Development, Land Acquisition Only Incidental; No Repugnancy With 2013 Act: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that the U.P. Awas Evam Vikas Parishad Adhiniyam, 1965 is not repugnant to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. It held that the Adhiniyam is, in pith and substance, referable to Entries 5 and 18 of the State List and not to Entry 42 of the Concurrent List, since its dominant purpose...
Landowners Under UP Awas Vikas Act Entitled To Same Benefits As Under 2013 Land Acquisition Act: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that landowners whose land is compulsorily acquired under the U.P. Awas Evam Vikas Parishad Adhiniyam, 1965 must be given monetary as well as non-monetary compensation on the same parameters as those prescribed under the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013. It held that any other view...
Man Who Spent 2.5 Years In Jail Over Alleged 'Derogatory' Email Against CM Yogi Gets Bail From Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has granted bail to a man who had been in jail for about 2.5 years in a case involving allegations that he sent an email containing derogatory remarks against Yogi Adityanath, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.A bench of Justice Krishan Pahal allowed the bail application of Mubarak Ali, who was booked in 2024 under Sections 153A, 295A, 505(2), 504, 419, 420, 467,...
Allahabad High Court Orders Production Of Minor Children After Father Alleges Estranged Wife Plans To Convert Them To Islam
The Allahabad High Court on Monday directed the State and private respondents to produce 2 minor children, a 7-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl, before it on September 25, after their father alleged that his estranged wife (the children's mother) intends to embrace Islam and convert the children to Islam. A bench of Justice Sandeep Jain passed the order while hearing a habeas corpus...
