Arbitration Clause Cannot Be Invoked Post Expiry Of Tenancy Agreement: Allahabad High Court

While entertaining a revision petition related to a tenancy agreement, the Allahabad High Court has held that a clause for arbitration cannot be invoked for any disputes that arise after the contract has come to an end.“… it clearly transpires that existence of a contract is necessary for invocation of arbitration clause prescribed under the agreement as the clause would perish with...

'Victim Is A Journalist, Prudent Woman': Allahabad High Court Stays Rape Case Proceedings Against Army Naik

The Allahabad High Court recently stayed the proceedings in a rape case involving allegations against an Indian Army Naik. The Court noted that the victim, a major and prudent woman who is a journalist, had initially come into contact with the accused through a matrimonial site and subsequently entered into a relationship with him. The Court also factored in the statement of a...

Suspended Without Intimating Charge, Violates Natural Justice: Allahabad High Court Allows 5th Year Law Student To Appear In Semester Exam

Yesterday, the Allahabad High Court granted relief to a 5th year law student who was suspended without being informed the charges or allegations against him, by permitting him to appear in the end semester examination. Stating that there was violation of principles of natural justice and the Clause 7.14 of the Code of Conduct of The Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Justice Manish...

Allahabad High Court Grants Bail To Advocate Sentenced To 4 Yrs Imprisonment For 'Stalking' Woman Judge

The Allahabad High Court recently granted bail to a practising advocate from Hamirpur district, who had been convicted earlier this year by a trial court and sentenced to four years in prison for 'stalking' a woman judge and making inappropriate comments about her. While hearing his revision plea against the judgment of conviction, a bench of Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra...

Allahabad HC Directs AMU To File Reply By Jan 9 On PIL Seeking Students' Union Elections At University

The Allahabad High Court last week directed the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) to file a Counter affidavit by January 9 in response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea filed by an AMU student seeking the holding of students' union elections at the university.A bench of Chief Justice Arun Bhansali and Justice Kshitij Shailendra sought a proper counter from the University after finding...

Allahabad High Court Grants Bail To IIT-BHU Student Gangrape Accused In UP Gangsters Act Case

The Allahabad High Court has granted bail to a man booked under the UP Gangsters Act, who is one of the accused in the notorious gangrape case involving a 20-year-old student from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) – Banaras Hindu University (BHU). The accused, Saksham Patel, an alleged member of the BJP IT Cell, was arrested in December last year, and he has been in jail...

Sambhal Violence | Inquiry Panel Already Formed By UP Govt: Allahabad HC Allows Withdrawal Of PIL Seeking SIT Probe

The Allahabad High Court today allowed the withdrawal of a PIL plea seeking a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe under the chairmanship of a retired HC judge into the alleged involvement of the Uttar Pradesh government, its administrative officials, including the District Magistrate (DM) and Superintendent of Police (SP), in the violence that erupted in Sambhal earlier this week. A...

Allahabad High Court Flags Trend Of Filing PILs Without Due Research, Upholds 75K Cost On Litigant

While upholding the cost of Rs. 75,000 imposed by the Single Judge in a PIL under the U.P. Revenue Code, 2006, a division bench of the Allahabad High Court observed that more Public Interest Litigations are being filed to wreck vengeance on parties rather than for public cause. In doing so the Court also observed that the PILs were being filed without due research and based on...

Allahabad High Court CJ-Led Bench Directs Listing Of PIL Seeking CBI Probe Into Sambhal Violence Before Appropriate Bench

The Chief Justice Arun Bhansali-led Bench of the Allahabad High Court today directed the listing of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) plea seeking a CBI probe into the violence that erupted last month in Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh, before a bench with the jurisdiction to hear criminal PILs. The Bench, headed by Chief Justice Bhansali and comprising Justice Vikas Budhwar, currently...

District Required To Pay Panel Advocates For All Matters They Received Notice For And Appeared In: Allahabad High Court

In a recent case, the Allahabad High Court directed the District of Jaunpur to pay an ex-panel advocate the outstanding fees they owed him. A division bench comprising Justice Shekhar B. Saraf and Justice Vipin Chandra Dixit held that the district was required to compensate the advocate for all the cases where he received notices and appeared before the Court.By letter dated 16.05.2013,...

'No Sanction; Communal Tension Over Pipal Tree': UP Govt Justifies Objection To Renovation Of 19th Century Ayodhya Mosque In High Court

The Uttar Pradesh government last week strongly objected to the renovation and repair work of the 19th-century Hussaini Mosque in Ayodhya, citing an attempt by the Mosque Committee to undertake construction on the mosque's land without proper sanction. The objection was raised before the Allahabad High Court, where the Additional Chief Standing Counsel justified the Govt's stance...

Whether Woman Allegedly Gang-Raped, Pushed Out Of Train In 2016 Compensated Under Railways Act? Asks Allahabad HC

The Allahabad High Court has asked the Union Ministry of Railways whether it has compensated a 35-year-old woman who was allegedly pushed out of a moving train after being gang-raped in 2016, resulting in the loss of her right leg, under the Railways Act of 1989. A bench of Chief Justice Arun Bhansali and Justice Jaspreet Singh made the query while hearing a suo motu Public...