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The Allahabad High Court upheld the conviction of Pravesh under Section 302/34 IPC for the 1998 murder of Jagpal Singh, finding eyewitness testimony reliable and motive proved through defence witnesses.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court at Indore clarified that a general liberty to conduct a departmental enquiry includes the right to issue a fresh charge-sheet, without disturbing reinstatement and back wages already directed.
The Allahabad High Court set aside a life sentence under Section 376 IPC and POCSO, finding the child victim's rape allegation was a step-by-step improvement unsupported by medical evidence or the father's own deposition.
The Allahabad High Court set aside a Section 302 IPC summoning order, holding that motive and Rs.35,000 possession surfaced for the first time during complaint inquiry, not in the FIR or protest petition.
The Lucknow Bench found the last-seen evidence unreliable, a key witness withheld, and the chain of circumstances incomplete against the sole surviving appellant.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court dismissed a miscellaneous criminal case for want of prosecution and vacated a stay on an arrest warrant after the petitioner failed to appear in either round.
Justice Subhash Vidyarthi rules that once a POCSO complainant is informed of a bail hearing, her non-appearance does not prevent the court from proceeding on merits.
The Lucknow Bench upheld a Section 302 IPC conviction for burning a pregnant wife over dowry, relying on a dying declaration, but commuted life imprisonment to a fixed 20-year term without remission.
The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench declared a nine-day advocate strike illegal, issued contempt show-cause notices to bar office-bearers, and directed district-level grievance panels to include District Magistrates.
The High Court of Jharkhand held that the doctrine of necessity permitted a single-member Lokayukta to decide a complaint touching his own brother, and found no illegality in the impugned order.
A Division Bench found that a practising advocate was jailed without lawful cause under BNSS preventive provisions and directed the State to pay Rs 75,000, recoverable from the errant officers.
A Division Bench found the Kanpur Nagar Nigam's order requisitioning LIC employees for Census 2027 field work prima facie outside the limits of Section 7(c) of the Census Act, 1948.
A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court holds that the right to challenge an illegal arrest by habeas corpus ends once a court takes cognizance on the charge sheet, resolving a conflict between two lines of Supreme Court authority.
A Division Bench held that Sub-Inspector Surya Prakash Dubey violated Article 21 by locking up a citizen over a domestic dispute, and directed the State to pay Rs. 35,000 with recovery from Dubey.
The Allahabad High Court waived interest on time extension fees accrued before UPSIDC's decision, holding the authority cannot profit from its own eight-year delay in deciding a pending application.
Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal granted bail to an accused in a rape-murder case after the FSL report showed his DNA did not match the vaginal smear of the deceased, citing inadequate infrastructure at U.P. forensic labs.
The Indore Bench declined to interfere with Central TB Division guidelines and NHM-MP orders deploying handheld X-ray devices for community TB screening, rejecting radiation safety and pay grievances.
The Lucknow Bench declined to interfere with a charge sheet and summoning order in a BNS and SC/ST Act case, holding that disputed facts cannot be adjudicated under Section 528 BNSS.
The Indore bench held that Rule 25 of the MP Bhumi Vikas Rules cannot be invoked where the Corporation's own inspector verified the site before granting permission.
The Lucknow Bench found that disciplinary authorities never verified the officer's actual Facebook post and that her comment on Dr. Ambedkar's absence from a private rally did not amount to Government criticism.
Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal granted bail to Sandeep Baisoya, finding the police never supplied grounds of arrest and skipped the mandatory pre-recovery panchnama at the police station.
The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench disposed of a criminal PIL filed by a Bengaluru resident seeking NIA and ED inquiry into an alleged anti-national organisation, finding no Uttar Pradesh nexus.
