Allahabad High Court
Adversarial Litigation In Service Matters At Instance Of A Stranger/ Busy Body Not Permitted: Allahabad HC Imposes ₹20K Cost
The Allahabad High Court recently observed that as per the law laid down by the Constitutional Courts, there is no permission for the initiation of adversarial litigation in service matters at the instance of a stranger or a busybody. A bench of Justice Ajay Bhanot observed thus while imposing a cost of Rs. 20,000/- on a petitioner to discourage his conduct of filing a writ...
BHU Student Death Case: Allahabad High Court Seeks Status Of Chargesheet Against 2 UP Police Constables
The Allahabad High Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to clarify whether a chargesheet has been filed against the two police constables and one home guard who were allegedly found involved in the death case of a 24-year-old student from the Banaras Hindu University (BHU). A bench of Chief Justice Arun Bhansali and Justice Vikas Budhwar granted the State Counsel until December...
Allahabad HC Allows Impleadment Of Mathura's Idgah Mosque As Defendant In Suit Claiming Aurangzeb Engraved Hindu Idols On Masjid Staircases
The Allahabad High Court last week allowed an application filed by Shahi Masjid Idgah, Mathura, seeking the impleadment in a suit filed by Thakur Keshav Dev Ji, Maharaj Virajman Mandir Katra Keshavdev (suit no. 3 in the Krishna Janmabhoomi-Shahi Eidgah Dispute). In this suit, the plaintiffs claim that Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb demolished the Katra Keshdev Temple temple in 1670,...
UP Police Invokes Offence Of Endangering Sovereignty, Unity Of India Against Mohammed Zubair Over His 'X Post', Allahabad HC Told
The Allahabad High Court was today informed that Section 152 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which criminalises acts endangering the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India, has been added in the FIR lodged against Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair by Ghaziabad police last month. The FIR has been filed pursuant to a complaint lodged by Udita Tyagi, general secretary of the...
Second Divorce Plea On Fresh Cause Of Action Of Cruelty After Dismissal Of First Plea Not Barred By Res Judicata: Allahabad HC
While hearing a case where a man had moved a second divorce plea after dismissal of the first divorce case, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court said that a second divorce petition filed on grounds of cruelty is maintainable where fresh cause of action arises after the dismissal of the first divorce petition.In doing so the court observed that the second divorce plea is not hit by...
Allahabad HC Questions Bar Association's Resolution To Cancel Membership Of Lawyers Pursuing Personal Matters Against Fellow Advocates
In a strongly worded order, the Allahabad High Court on Monday took judicial notice of a resolution drawn by the Etah Bar Association to the effect that if any lawyer takes up a personal matter against a fellow lawyer, his/her membership with the Bar Association will be cancelled. A bench of Justice Kshitij Shailendra issued notice to the President of the Bar Association, Etah,...
FSS Act | Date of Offence Would Be When Food Analyst Report Is Received, Not When Sample Was Collected: Allahabad HC
The Allahabad High Court has held that under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, the date of commission of an offence is determined by the receipt of the food analyst's report about unfit/unsafe food and not by the date when the sample of food is collected. The High Court clarified that in the case of the sale of unsafe or substandard milk, the date of commission of the offence...
Remark 'Absconded' From Service Adverse In Nature, Casts Stigma; Cannot Be Passed Without Following Proper Procedure: Allahabad High Court
While deciding a case of termination of services of a government employee, the Allahabad High Court has held that mentioning that the employee “absconded” from service will cast a stigma on the employee as the word suggests that the employee deliberately fled from his work. It was held that such a remarks adversely affects the employee.The Court held that an order casting stigma on such...
Allegations Of Wife Quarreling With Husband Not Sufficient To Show Acute Mental Agony: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that allegations of wife quarreling with the husband are not sufficient to show acute mental agony suffered by him so as to seek divorce on grounds of cruelty.Observing that the allegations made by the husband against the wife inflicting cruelty on him were vague in nature, the bench of Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Om Prakash Shukla held,“The allegations...
Allahabad High Court Upholds Regularization Of Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority Workmen
Recently, the Allahabad High Court has upheld the award granted by the Industrial Tribunal to the workmen of the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority regularizing their services in the Authority establishment.“The Industrial Tribunal while deciding the 16 misc. cases, under Section 16-F of the Act of 1947 has recorded finding of fact that petitioner-authority has violated...
Will Release Man Arrested Over 'Objectionable' Post On Sambhal Violence Today Itself If Bail Bonds Furnished: UP Govt To High Court
The Uttar Pradesh Government informed the Allahabad High Court today that it will release 59-year-old businessman Mohammad Javed, also known as Javed Pump, whom UP Police arrested on Sunday night for allegedly inciting unrest by posting an objectionable post on social media regarding the recent violence in the State's Sambhal district. Violence erupted in Sambhal district after a...
Allahabad HC Seeks Outcome Details From Home Ministry On BJP Worker's Representation To Cancel Rahul Gandhi's Citizenship
Hearing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea filed by a BJP Member from Karnataka (S. Vignesh Shishir), seeking a CBI probe into Congress leader and LoP in LokSabha Rahul Gandhi's alleged British Citizenship, the Allahabad High Court on Monday asked the Union Home Ministry about the outcome of the representation-cum-complaint received by it from the PIL petitioner seeking the...