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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...

Allahabad High Court Issues Notices On Journalist Satyam Vermas Habeas Plea Against NSA Detention Over Noida Protest

The Allahabad High Court today issued notice to the State of Uttar Pradesh and sought its counter in a habeas corpus petition filed by journalist Satyam Verma, challenging his preventive detention under the National Security Act, 1980 (NSA) for his alleged participation in the April 2026 Workers' Protest. A bench of Justice Atul Sreedharan and Justice Achal Sachdev sought the replies of...

UP Bureaucrats Using Goondas Act As Tool Of Oppression; To Face Punitive Damages For Illegal Orders: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has observed that the UP Goondas Act is being used as a tool of oppression by the Uttar Pradesh bureaucrats and the State despite the Court's consistent rulings on the issue. A bench of Justice Sandeep Jain held that the bureaucracy must stop issuing illegal and arbitrary orders, or else it will have to face punitive damages. "This Court has uptill now refrained...

Noida Protest | After Indicating Grant Of Bail, Allahabad High Court Defers Journalist Satyam Vermas Plea To Hear States Objections

The Allahabad High Court today deferred the bail plea of Journalist Satyam Verma in one of the 11 criminal cases registered against him in connection with the April 2026 Noida workers' protest, after the State sought an opportunity to file its objections to his bail plea on the ground of parity. The Court had earlier indicated in open court that Verma would be granted bail on parity with...

Premature Release | Jail Conduct Alone Cant Decide A Convicts Eligibility, Govt Must Take Holistic View: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that the Government, while considering a convict's plea for premature release, cannot restrict its consideration to the nature of the crime and the convict's conduct in jail.The Court added that the authority must take a "far more broad based and holistic" view and consider the wider circumstances relevant to the convict's reformation and possible...

Noida Workers Protest | Allahabad High Court Indicates Grant Of Bail To Journalist Satyam Verma

Update at 7 PM : Noida Protest | After Indicating Grant Of Bail, Allahabad High Court Defers Journalist Satyam Verma's Plea To Hear State's ObjectionsThe Allahabad High Court today indicated the grant of bail to Journalist Satyam Verma in one of the elevan criminal cases registered against him in connection with the April 2026 Noida workers' protest. Verma, however, is not expected to walk...

Maintenance | Multiplication Of Non-Compulsive Litigation Creating Unwarranted Burden On Family Courts: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has observed that the multiplication of "optional and non-compulsive litigation” is creating an unwarranted burden on Family Courts and causing delay in the disposal of matters.A bench Justice Subhash Vidyarthi made the observation while dismissing a petition filed by a woman seeking a direction for expeditious disposal of an execution case concerning...

Teacher Suspended Over Allegations Of Forced Islamic Practices At School Gets Relief From Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court last week granted relief to a teacher who was suspended over allegations that students at the school were performing Islamic prayers and wearing uniforms indicating that they belonged to a "special community". A bench of Justice Manju Rani Chauhan directed that the departmental inquiry against the teacher be concluded at the earliest, preferably within 15 days,...

UP Municipalities Act | Nagar Panchayat Has Authority To License Cattle Markets Even On Private Land: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that a Nagar Panchayat has the authority to licence and regulate cattle markets within its local limits under the Uttar Pradesh Municipalities Act, 1916, while dismissing a challenge to the license granted for holding a cattle market. A bench of Justice JJ Munir and Justice Indrajeet Shukla was hearing a petition challenging orders dated December 2025 and...