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NLU Prayagraj Caste Discrimination Case: High Court Chief Justice Recuses From Hearing Professors Appeal Against Single Judge Order

Allahabad High Court Chief Justice Arun Bhansali today recused himself from hearing an appeal filed by a professor against the Single Judge's order directing an inquiry by Judicial Officers into allegations of caste-based humiliation and discrimination at Dr. Rajendra Prasad National Law University, Prayagraj.Chief Justice Bhansali is the Chancellor of the University.The appeal was listed before the Chief Justice-led bench after a Division Bench earlier stayed further proceedings in the writ...

Can A Dowry Death Case Be Quashed Because Woman Allegedly Died Of Heart Attack? Allahabad High Court Answers

The Allahabad High Court has refused to quash a dowry death case against a mother-in-law, holding that the fact that a woman died from shock resulting from myocardial infarction (heart attack) could not, by itself, be treated as conclusive proof at the quashing stage that her death was purely natural.A bench of Justice Chawan Prakash observed that where a young woman dies within seven years of marriage amid specific allegations of dowry-related cruelty or harassment, it cannot automatically be...

Hookah Bars | Food Safety Dept, Municipal Corporations Cannot Issue Licences; Police Can Enforce COTPA: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that neither the Food Safety and Drug Administration nor the Municipal Corporation has jurisdiction to issue licences for or otherwise regulate hookah bars in Uttar Pradesh.The bench, however, clarified that the police are empowered under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 to search, seize, confiscate and impose penalties on establishments...

Allahabad High Court Stays Arrest Of CJP Member In UP Police FIR Over Dilapidated Govt School Video

The Allahabad High Court on Monday granted interim protection and stayed the arrest of a student and member of the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) who moved the HC against a UP Police FIR filed against him after he allegedly recorded and circulated on social media a video showing the condition of a Government Primary School in Farrukhabad.A division bench of Justice Salil Kumar Rai and Justice Padam Narain Mishra passed the order while seeking a response from the state government. All...

Allahabad High Court Judge Pens Poem Drawing From His Smoking Experience In Law School, Urges Youth To Shun Tobacco

In an interesting epilogue to its 90-page judgment holding that hookah bars cannot operate in Uttar Pradesh by rendering hookah services in Designated Smoking Areas, Allahabad High Court judge Justice Shekhar B Saraf penned a poem drawing from his own experience of smoking and urging the younger generation not to fall prey to tobacco addiction.The poem came at the end of the judgment in which a Bench of Justice Saraf and Justice Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary held that hookah bars cannot...

Hookah Bars Cant Operate In UP Even In Designated Smoking Areas: Allahabad High Court Says Right To Clean Air Overrides Right To Trade

The Allahabad High Court has held that hookah bars cannot operate in Uttar Pradesh and hookah services can not be provided even in "Designated Smoking Areas". The Court stressed that the right of non-smokers to breathe clean air in a public place cannot be abridged by the commercial interests of an establishment claiming a right to trade.A Bench of Justice Shekhar B Saraf and Justice Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary thus dismissed a batch of connected petitions concerning the operation of...

Cooked-Up Story So Absurd It Cant Be Believed: Allahabad High Court Discharges Congress MP Rakesh Rathore In Rape Case

The Allahabad High Court has discharged Congress MP from Sitapur, Rakesh Rathore, in a 2025 rape case, observing that the story "cooked up" by the complainant is so 'absurd' that it cannot be believed by any person of ordinary prudence.The Court added that the prosecution material indicated a "long term consensual extra-marital relationship between two married persons of matured ages". A bench of Justice Subhash Vidyarthi allowed Rathore's criminal revision and set aside the trial court's order...

Pious Marriage Institution Shouldnt Be Taken Lightly: Allahabad High Court Protects Divorced Couple With 2 Children Who Remarried

The Allahabad High Court has protected the peaceful marital life of a divorced couple with two children who subsequently remarried each other. The Court, however, remarked that the "pious institution of marriage should not be taken lightly".A Bench of Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan and Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra made the observation while dealing with a petition filed by the couple...

Senior Citizens Act | Tribunal Cant Declare Gift Deed Void On Ground Of Forgery; Remedy Lies Before Civil Court: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that a senior citizen who alleges that a gift deed of his property is a forgery cannot have it declared void by the Tribunal under the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007. It held that Section 23(1) of the Act presupposes a valid transfer made on the condition that the transferee will provide the senior citizen basic amenities...