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The Allahabad High Court held that the State Government had no statutory authority to stay a District Magistrate's quasi-judicial order on land acquisition lapse, and remitted the matter for fresh decision under Section 48 of the Land Acquisition Act, 1894.
A Division Bench dismissed three connected writ petitions challenging a January 2024 award by Varanasi's Special Land Acquisition Officer, holding the award squarely complied with earlier court directions and Supreme Court precedent.
The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench dismissed writ petitions by two postal employees challenging monthly salary deductions made by a cooperative bank to recover loans they had guaranteed.
Dismissing an Article 227 petition, the Allahabad High Court held that a memorandum of appeal under the UP Tenancy Act must be valued on the entire decretal liability, including crystallised mesne profits.
The Division Bench found that the vacancy against which the appellant was appointed never legally existed, making every rupee drawn from the State exchequer recoverable under the doctrine of restitution.
The Allahabad High Court held that the Rent Authority's jurisdiction under the UP Regulation of Urban Premises Tenancy Act, 2021 flows from the statute, not from any written tenancy agreement between the parties.
A Jabalpur Division Bench set aside life-sentence convictions in a 2009 stabbing case, finding that the trial court used an unrelated FSL report and the deceased's FIR thumb-impression was unreliable.
The Allahabad High Court set aside two salary-rejection orders, finding they violated natural justice and disregarded binding Division Bench directions on a Class-IV compassionate appointment.
The Allahabad High Court dismissed two writ petitions challenging consolidation authority orders that recognised Ramji as adopted son of a widow, entitling him to inherit his adoptive father's landholding.
A Division Bench held that Section 16-E(10) power cannot be exercised after 29 years of continuous service, regularisation, and promotion, absent any fraud.
Allahabad High Court declared the detention of two adult women by their father unlawful after they converted to Islam, ordering Rs 25 lakh compensation jointly from the father and State.
The Allahabad High Court held that a plaintiff's wilful neglect in depositing balance sale consideration for over two decades cannot be rescued by a belated extension-of-time application.
Allahabad High Court holds that a defendant in a Small Causes Court suit cannot insist as of right that a res judicata plea be decided before the main suit proceeds to trial.
Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal clarifies that law graduates from 2009-10 onward who fail the AIBE within two years cannot appear before any court, tribunal, or revenue court, and risk prosecution under Section 45 of the Advocates Act.
Nearly five decades after acquisition, the Allahabad High Court enhanced compensation for a Ghaziabad-border plot situated just eight kilometres from Connaught Place, applying pre-amended Section 25 constraints.
A Division Bench set aside a Tahsildar's rejection of a Scheduled Caste caste certificate application, holding that a bare website notice stating "lack of evidence" cannot substitute a speaking order.
A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court set aside a writ court order and directed the U.P. Board to grant selection grade to a clerk on ten years of clean service rendered between 1995 and 2005.
The Allahabad High Court dismissed RBI's appeal against reinstatement of a dismissed Class-III employee, finding the departmental enquiry procedurally flawed and the charge of forgery unproved.
The Lucknow Bench found that petitioners suppressed a pending divorce case and a blood relationship to obtain interim police protection for their proposed marriage.
Justice Achal Sachdev dismissed a husband's criminal revision, holding that denial of maintenance forces a wife into destitution and offends the constitutional guarantee of dignity under Article 21.
The Lucknow Bench set aside convictions under Section 306 and Section 498-A IPC, holding that a five-month gap in contact fatally undermined the instigation charge.
A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court held that no police officer, however senior, can direct further investigation in a pending trial without first obtaining the Court's permission.
The Allahabad High Court dismissed a writ challenging a State Information Commission order and imposed Rs 6.70 lakh in cumulative costs on the petitioner-in-person for abusing RTI processes and defying a court direction to appear in person.
Allahabad High Court dismissed a writ petition challenging a State Information Commission order and imposed over Rs 6.70 lakh in costs for RTI misuse and defiance of court directions.
