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Justice Vikas Budhwar held that Section 10 of the U.P. General Clauses Act saved an election petition filed on the first day courts reopened after summer vacation, as no notification barred its acceptance during vacation.
A complainant challenged a Sessions Judge's order transferring a trial to follow the Presiding Officer who had recorded nine prosecution witnesses; the Allahabad High Court dismissed the petition.
The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench dismissed the State of UP's appeal against acquittal of two accused under Sections 376 and 452 IPC, holding the trial court's view was legally sustainable.
Applying the 25% net-salary guideline from Kalyan Dey Chowdhury, the Allahabad High Court enhanced Section 125 maintenance and dismissed the husband's parallel revision challenging the award.
A Division Bench found that disputed facts about reservoir area, Tiger Reserve restrictions, and actual income earned made the fisheries lease controversy unsuitable for Article 226 jurisdiction.
A Division Bench held that a Vocational Certificate in Community Health or electrohomeopathy cannot authorise a practitioner to treat patients under the modern allopathic system.
Allahabad High Court sets aside three consolidation authorities' orders refusing mutation, holding a sale deed executed after the permitted period is not void where a legislative transfer ban caused the delay.
The Lucknow Bench set aside a State Information Commission penalty order against a Block Education Officer, holding that no notice, no reply opportunity, and no hearing had been given before imposing the penalty.
Allahabad High Court dismisses Article 227 petition against Rent Tribunal's refusal to permit amendment, clarifying that res judicata and estoppel pleas already in the memorandum of appeal remain open for final hearing.
The Allahabad High Court partly allowed a criminal revision, denying maintenance to a woman who began residing with the revisionist while legally married to another man, but sustaining Rs.1,000 monthly for their minor daughter confirmed by DNA evidence.
The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench has directed the State not to alter land already taken from a 150-year-old Methodist school, pending a hearing on disputed Nazool classification.
The Allahabad High Court set aside a Family Court order denying maintenance to a wife, holding that the trial court ignored the husband's own admissions about cohabitation, a court marriage application, and the birth of their child.
The Lucknow Bench found North Eastern Railway raised successive curable defects to oust Konkan Railway's lowest financial bid in a Rs 262.12 crore traction sub-station tender.
A Division Bench at Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench confirmed a husband's life sentence for killing his wife, finding a complete nine-link chain of circumstantial evidence including an extra-judicial confession and absconding conduct.
Justice Sanjiv Kumar upheld a seven-year rigorous imprisonment sentence under Section 376 IPC, ruling that the prosecutrix's unshaken testimony alone was sufficient to sustain conviction even where the sole eye-witness turned hostile.
The Allahabad High Court set aside NHAI's mid-term termination of Tata Projects' Rs 940-crore highway contract, holding the authority's own documents proved it never handed over encumbrance-free land as promised.
Justice Sandeep Jain holds that Section 6 of the UP Control of Goondas Act, 1970 limits the Commissioner's appellate power to confirming or setting aside orders, with no power to remand.
The Allahabad High Court dismissed a Section 482 application seeking to quash a Domestic Violence Act complaint, holding that a divorce decree does not extinguish a wife's right to relief for past acts of domestic violence.
A plaintiff who claimed 25 years of continuous possession could not sustain a bare injunction suit, having never sought declaration of ownership or cancellation of the gift deed clouding his title.
The Allahabad High Court has asked a Family Court judge at Jhansi to explain why he directed a divorced husband to pay Rs 10,000 monthly maintenance to his ex-wife even after her remarriage was placed on record.
The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench dismissed a mandamus writ for unpaid dues from 2016-17 flood protection work, holding limitation cannot be extended by one-sided correspondence.
The Allahabad High Court set aside a 1990 life-sentence against Laddan, holding that only suspicion linked him to the 1987 shooting, with no prearranged plan for Section 34 IPC to apply.
A Division Bench dismissed the criminal appeal of Tilluka @ Manoj, convicted under Section 302 IPC for setting his sister-in-law ablaze, holding the dying declaration recorded by a Magistrate fully reliable.
The court discarded the sole dying declaration as sweeping, internally contradicted, and stripped of medical support, then drew an adverse inference for suppression of a second declaration.
