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LiveLaw Allahabad High Court Weekly Round-Up: October 26 - November 1, 2026

NOMINAL INDEX Pankaj Kumar and 9 others v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin./ Addl.Chief Secy. Deptt. of Food Safety Drug Administration and Ors. 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 877 Rajneesh Upadhyay and 14 others v. The State of U.P. and 2 others 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 878 Leelawati Devi vs. State of UP 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 879 P.K. Nigam v. P.N.B. and others 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 880 Dinesh Kumar v. State of U.P. Thru Secy. Revenue and 4 Ors 2026 LiveLaw (AB) 881 M/S Nalini Khandelwal v. State Of U.P....

Amid Bar-Bench Tensions, Why Has Allahabad HCBA Sought Oudh Bars Intervention Against Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal?

Amid ongoing tensions between the Bar and the Bench at the Allahabad High Court, the Allahabad High Court Bar Association (HCBA) has written to the newly elected office-bearers of the Oudh Bar Association, seeking their intervention and appropriate action to restrain Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal from participating in judicial proceedings. In a letter dated October 31, 2026, addressed to the newly elected President and General Secretary of the Oudh Bar Association, the HCBA expressed concern...

Writ Court Cant Decide A Partys Eligibility On Oral Submission Made Across The Bar: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that where a writ petition turns on disputed or unverified facts going to the eligibility of a third party, the Court must ordinarily call for a counter-affidavit before recording a finding of fact against a party who has had no opportunity to place his version on record. Setting aside a Single Judge's order to that extent, it held that the eligibility of...

Continuing Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Teachers On Contract For Years On Paltry Pay Is Forced Labour Under Article 23: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that the continued engagement of teachers in Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas on year-to-year contracts, without any step by the State to create posts for them or to pay them at par with regularly appointed teachers, amounts to a form of forced labour prohibited by Article 23 of the Constitution of India. The Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya Scheme was...

Focus On Career, Not Social Media Likes: Allahabad High Court Advises Young Advocates Amid Bar-Bench Tensions

Expressing concern over incidents of disruption of court proceedings and differences between the Bar and the Bench, the Allahabad High Court today advised young advocates to focus on their studies and preparation of cases rather than increasing their social media likes.A Bench of Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal added that young advocates are the future of the High Court as they go on to...

Allahabad High Court Seeks UP SECs Response On Alleged Illegal Deletion Of 32 Names From Balrampur Panchayat Voter List

The Allahabad High Court has sought a response from the Uttar Pradesh State Election Commission over the alleged illegal deletion of 32 persons' names from the Panchayat voter list of a village in Balrampur district.A Bench of Justice Alok Mathur and Justice Abdesh Kumar Chaudhary was hearing a writ petition filed by Santosh Kumar and 31 others, alleging that their names had been...

Allahabad High Court Seeks UP Govts Response To Supreme Courts Stillborn Observation On UP Gangsters Act

The Allahabad High Court has sought a response from the Uttar Pradesh Government on the Supreme Court's August 2026 observations that the Uttar Pradesh Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, 1986, is 'stillborn'.A Bench of Justice Rajeev Singh also stayed criminal proceedings against an accused booked under the Act while noting that the Supreme Court had held that the Act does...