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A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court has directed the Managing Director of Purvanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited to appear personally after the corporation denied compensation despite a Deputy Director's report establishing its employee's role in the electrocution death.
The Lucknow Family Court dismissed an uncontested declaration suit on jurisdictional grounds despite both parties admitting the Talaq; the Allahabad High Court reversed the order and declared the parties divorced.
A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court dismissed the appeal of Ranjeet Patel, convicted under Section 302 IPC, holding that four family eyewitnesses were credible and their minor contradictions immaterial.
Justice Subhash Vidyarthi quashed a Goonda Act externment order against Rahul Saroj, holding that involvement in two criminal cases does not establish habitual offending under Section 2(b).
A Division Bench directed the Assistant Director, Handloom and Textile Industries, Varanasi to hand over Quarter No. 3, Bunkar Colony to widow Kamrunnisha and execute a transfer deed in her favour.
A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court dismissed appeals by three convicted in-laws, holding that the chain of circumstantial evidence in a matrimonial home strangulation murder was complete.
The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench dismissed a writ petition challenging the reservation of Kadipur Assembly Constituency for Scheduled Castes, holding that Section 9(1)(c) of the Delimitation Act 2002 is constitutionally valid.
A practicing lawyer has filed a PIL before the Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench seeking a ban on Roblox and similar gaming platforms for minors, alongside a high-level expert committee.
The Allahabad High Court upheld a specific performance decree against the daughters of a deceased vendor who failed in his lifetime to convert a Kanpur plot from leasehold to freehold before selling it to a hospital.
The Lucknow Bench held that a police Head Constable assigned to Covid-19 prevention and awareness work qualifies as a Corona Warrior, rejecting the State's narrow reading of the Government Order.
The Allahabad High Court set aside a preventive detention order under PIT-NDPS Act after finding the Detaining Authority did not know the detenu had already been granted bail in the very case cited as justification.
The Allahabad High Court set aside a permanent increment-withholding order against a Sub-Divisional Magistrate after finding that no oral evidence was led, his defence was ignored, and a four-year delay went unexplained.
Dismissing a 2022 election petition targeting the Ram Kola MLA's SC certificate, the Allahabad High Court held that only State-constituted Scrutiny Committees, not Election Tribunals, can validate or invalidate caste certificates.
The Lucknow Bench has directed the Additional Chief Secretary, Minorities Welfare to appear personally after the UP government failed to nominate the Minorities Commission's Chairman and Members even after the previous tenure lapsed in 2024.
A Division Bench acquitted Khalid of murder after finding the prosecution's eyewitness account physically improbable and the FIR unproved because its author died before trial.
A Division Bench declined to quash an FIR against nineteen persons who obstructed police and a Child Line Team attempting to prevent the marriage of a 16-year-old Muslim girl in Bulandshahr.
The Allahabad High Court directed a Circle Officer and Investigating Officer to appear in person with the case diary after an FIR under the Information Technology Act went uninvestigated for over four and a half months.
The Madhya Pradesh High Court held that a charge-sheet filed against an absconding accused extinguishes his default bail right, and no supplementary charge-sheet is mandatory after his subsequent arrest.
The Allahabad High Court rejected a review application by Tapish Sharma, holding that an allegedly missing page from written instructions did not constitute an error apparent on the face of the record warranting review.
The court found that the modus operandi of buying agricultural land and quickly reselling it as residential plots justified valuing the property at non-agricultural rates under the Indian Stamp Act.
Justice Vikram D. Chauhan found that all six scheduled-offence FIRs from Himachal Pradesh had resulted in closure reports, fatally undermining the Enforcement Directorate's proceeds-of-crime claim against the applicant.
A Division Bench held that a 1913 sale deed by the Municipal Board itself, 74 years of abadi revenue entries, and promissory estoppel barred Nagar Nigam Varanasi from invoking a Fasli 1291 pond record against a hotel project.
Justice Sanjiv Kumar dismissed the criminal appeal of Lekhpal Mahesh Chand, upholding his conviction for accepting Rs. 300 as illegal gratification in a 1977 Vigilance trap case.
The Allahabad High Court set aside convictions under Sections 302, 498A and 323 IPC after finding the viscera report inadmissible and the Section 313 examination fatally defective.
