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Justice Prashant Kumar dismissed the RERA appeal of Aims Max Gardenia Developers and imposed Rs 2.5 lakh costs, finding seven successive proceedings an abuse of process against a flat buyer awaiting possession since 2013.
The Lucknow Bench held that the right to regularisation survives an employee's death, directing compassionate appointment consideration for his son and censuring the Rural Engineering Department.
The Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench, froze marriage operations at an Arya Samaj Mandir that issued a certificate claiming a 19-year-old groom was 22, relying solely on an affidavit.
The Uttarakhand High Court dismissed a Section 482 quashing plea, holding that whether essential marriage ceremonies were performed is a matter of trial, not a threshold for summoning.
The Allahabad High Court found no grounds to unsettle UPCA's 2005 dissolution and corporate reconstitution, holding the petitioner's claims barred by delay and unsupported by evidence.
The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench disposed of a writ petition over a family land dispute, directing police and executive authorities to strictly stay out of private civil property matters.
A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court freed an accused because neither the arrest memo nor the General Diary entry contained specific grounds of arrest, and the Remand Magistrate signed a blank printed proforma without checking compliance.
A Division Bench at the Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench has held that physical appearance before the Photo Verification Centre is not mandatory and notarised affidavits filed anywhere in India are accepted.
A Division Bench upheld conviction under Sections 302 and 201 IPC, holding that hostile witnesses, the medical evidence of throttling, and the appellants' conduct of secretly burying the bodies together closed the chain of circumstantial evidence.
The Lucknow Bench held that a prima facie discrepancy in known sources of income is enough to frame charges, and the accused must account for assets during trial.
The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench dismissed a husband's habeas corpus petition at admission, finding that his own writ pleadings and his wife's written complaint to police disclosed a matrimonial dispute, not illegal detention.
The Allahabad High Court declined to interfere with the cancellation of an arms licence after the holder failed to account for 757 cartridges, some reportedly used in weddings and religious festivals.
The Lucknow Bench dismisses an appeal against conviction for murdering four family members, holding that last-seen evidence, motive, post-arrest recovery and Section 106 burden cumulatively closed the chain.
The Allahabad High Court partly allowed an appeal by the UP Public Works Department, holding that a MoRTH SOP on GST calculation was improperly applied to an item-rate road contract.
The Allahabad High Court dismissed a challenge to the de-notification of Gram Panchayat Karua, holding that statutory "population" means Census 2011 figures, not the actual count on the date of the order.
A retired UP Police constable's bid to claim gratuity during a pending criminal case fails; the court holds Regulation 919-A bars payment until proceedings conclude.
A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court dismissed the State of U.P.'s appeal, holding that a 1992 government order creating two pay scales within a merged cadre violated Articles 14 and 16.
Holding that two suits arising from the same adoption deed must be heard by one court, the Allahabad High Court transferred a cancellation suit from Kannauj to Kanpur Nagar under Section 24 CPC.
The Division Bench set aside a 1987 life-sentence conviction, citing a four-and-a-half-year delay in lodging the FIR, conflicting postmortem opinions, and the prosecution's failure to prove homicide beyond doubt.
The Allahabad High Court held that disputed signatures on a photocopy of a rent agreement cannot be referred for forensic handwriting examination, as photocopies obliterate the microscopic features essential to reliable scientific comparison.
Justice Santosh Rai set aside a 1987 conviction under Section 392 IPC, holding that a 42-day delayed identification parade unsupported by independent witnesses or recovery could not sustain conviction.
The High Court found that all three last-seen witnesses withheld their accounts until after the bodies were identified, and the recovered weapons lacked disclosure statements or blood-group linkage to the deceased.
The Lucknow Bench upheld convictions of two women for burning a daughter-in-law to death, finding the Magistrate-recorded dying declaration reliable despite inconsistencies in a parallel Section 161 statement.
Disposing of a writ against a demolition order, Justice Vinod Diwakar expanded scope to address the absence of crowd science in Mathura's disaster planning framework.
