Allahabad High Court
“Luxury Litigation”: Allahabad High Court Imposes ₹100 Cost Each On More Than 6,400 Petitioners For Moving Against Settled Law
The Allahabad High Court has imposed a cost of Rs. 100 each on more than 6,400 petitioners who had approached the High Court against law settled by the Supreme Court in the case of State of U.P. & Ors Vs. Shiv Kumar Pathak & Ors (2018).In 2017, 5he Supreme Court in the case of Shiv Kumar Pathak & Ors held though the authorities would have been permitted to proceed in terms of...
Allahabad High Court Sentences Advocate To 6 Months In Jail For Calling Judges 'Goondas'; Bars Him From Practicing In HC For 3 Yrs
Today, the Allahabad High Court sentenced Lucknow-based Advocate Ashok Pandey to six months' simple imprisonment for using abusive language against HC judges, calling them 'goondas' in open court in 2021. Pandey has been found guilty of committing criminal contempt of court by a bench of Justice Vivek Chaudhary and Justice Brij Raj Singh, as it concluded that Pandey's conduct shows...
'Unmarried Major Parents Are Entitled To Live Together': Allahabad High Court Grants Police Protection To Interfaith Live-In Couple
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday granted police protection to an interfaith live-in couple, while hearing a plea filed by their minor daughter which claimed that the erstwhile in-laws of the child's mother threatening the couple. A division bench of Justice Shekhar B Saraf and Justice Vipin Chandra Dixit in its order observed that it appeared that the biological father and mother of the...
'Victim Herself Invited Trouble, Was Responsible For It': Allahabad HC Grants Bail To Man Accused Of Raping College Student
The Allahabad High Court recently granted bail to a man accused of committing rape against a college student, as it noted that the victim had 'herself invited trouble' and was 'responsible' for the alleged act of rape. The victim alleged that the accused, whom she met at a bar, raped her twice in his relative's apartment after she had agreed to go to his place to rest, as she was...
NOIDA Authorities Deposited Party's Tax Under Wrong Head: Allahabad HC Directs Compensation To Assessee For Penalty Imposed U/S 73 Of GST Act
Recently, the Allahabad High Court has directed the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA) to compensate the assesee Rs. Rs.19,22,778/- which was imposed on the assesee as tax and penalty in proceedings under Section 73 of the Goods and Service Tax Act, 2017. Petitioner rented out his property in Gautam Budh Nagar(Noida). The rent received from the property was...
District Judge And Not DM 'Appropriate Authority' To Determine Issues Relating To Adequacy Of Compensation U/S 16(3) Telegraph Act: Allahabad HC
Following the decision of the Supreme Court in Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. v. Century Textiles & Industries Ltd., the Allahabad High Court has reiterated that under Section 16(3) of the Telegraph Act, 1885, the District Judge is the appropriate authority to determine issues relating to adequacy & sufficiency of compensation and not the District Magistrate.Section 16 of...
'Sufficient Motive': Allahabad HC Upholds Conviction Of 7 Including Man Who Killed Daughter, Lover Over Disapproved Relationship
The Allahabad High Court on Monday upheld the conviction of seven individuals, including a man who murdered his daughter and her lover in 2006 in a tragic case of 'honor' killing. A bench of Justice Siddharth and Justice Praveen Kumar Giri noted that the incident, which occurred 19 years ago, was a result of the father's disapproval of the relationship between his daughter and her...
Allahabad HC Seeks Affidavit From UP Minority Dept Secy On Compliance With Directions For Sunni Waqf Board Elections
The Allahabad High Court last week directed the Additional Chief Secretary of the Minority Welfare and Waqf Department, Uttar Pradesh Government, to file an affidavit showing compliance with the High Court's March 2024 directions to conclude, within two months, the process for the election of Members of the Uttar Pradesh Sunni Waqf Board. A bench of Justice Rajeev Singh clarified that...
Writ Court Can Go Into Question Of De Facto Possession Of Surplus Land, If Disputed Facts Can Be Discerned: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has held that a writ Court can go into the question of de facto possession of surplus land if disputed facts can be discerned by the Court. It held that the State must establish that de facto possession of the land was taken prior to enactment of the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Repeal Act, 1999 so as to prevent abatement of proceedings under Urban Land...
Allahabad High Court Imposes ₹25 Lakh Cost On Loan Guarantors For Deliberately Prolonging Litigation On Auctioned Property
The Allahabad High Court imposed a cost of Rs. 25 lakhs on guarantors of a loan for deliberately prolonging litigation regarding a property auctioned in 2017.While directing the guarantors of the loan (petitioners) to vacate the auctioned premises and awarding the cost in favour of the auction purchaser, Justice Sangeeta Chandra held,“This Court having gone through the judicial precedents...
Allahabad HC Refuses Bail To Alleged SFJ Members Accused Of 'Recce' Around Ayodhya's Ram Temple Ahead Of Consecration Ceremony
The Allahabad High Court last week refused bail to two alleged 'Sikh For Justice' Members and Khalistani sympathisers, who were arrested in January last year on the allegations of conducting 'recce' around Ayodhya's Ram Janm Bhoomi Temple. A bench of Justice Sangeeta Chandra and Justice Shree Prakash Singh noted that the trial court, while denying bail to them had found prima...
Justice Arindam Sinha & Justice Chandra Dhari Singh Sworn-In As Judges Of Allahabad High Court
Justice Arindam Sinha and Justice Chandra Dhari Singh were sworn in as judges of the Allahabad High Court on Monday (April 7). Justice Arindam Sinha was appointed as an Additional Judge of the Calcutta High Court on October 30, 2013 and as a permanent Judge on March 14, 2016. He was later on transferred to Orissa High Court and where he took oath on October 08, 2021. In the Orissa High Court,...