Allahabad High Court
Hapur Incident: Lawyers' Strike No Solution To Lathi-Charge, Allahabad High Court Suggests Calling Erring Officers And Bureaucrats To Court
On the 15th day of strike by lawyers pursuant to the Hapur Incident, the Allahabad High Court observed that the strike is not a solution to the brutal lathi-charge on the lawyers at Hapur. The Court suggested that the erring officers and bureaucrats must be called to Court to justify their actions. “The solution could have been to let the Courts function and make the officers and...
After 14 Months In Jail, Allahabad HC Grants Bail To Man Accused Of Damaging CM Yogi's Image By Misusing Informant's SIM
The Allahabad High Court last week granted bail to one Ibnul Hussain who was arrested in July 2022 on the allegations of damaging the image of the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Yogi Adityanath by misusing the mobile phone of the informant.The bench of Justice Subhash Vidyarthi allowed the plea keeping in view the fact that the applicant is a 22-year-old person having no criminal history...
'Can't Curtail An Individual's Liberty Due To Lawyers' Strike': Allahabad HC Grants Bail To A Lady In Dowry Death Case
The Allahabad High Court today granted bail to a woman arrested in July this year in connection with a dowry death case as it stressed that the liberty of an individual cannot be curtailed because lawyers are abstaining from Court.With this, the bench of Justice Siddharth allowed a bail application filed by the applicant-accused (Pratiksha) booked under Sections 498-A, 304-B, 323 IPC and...
Supreme Court Collegium Recommends Making Seven Additional Judges Of Allahabad High Court Permanent
The Collegium of the Supreme Court has recommended the names of the following seven Additional Judges of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, for appointment as permanent judges:1. Justice Umesh Chandra Sharma,2. Justice Renu Agarwal, 3. Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra, 4. Justice Mayank Kumar Jain,5. Justice Shiv Shanker Prasad,6. Justice Gajendra Kumar, 7. Justice Nalin...
Appointment To Posts Of DGC/ADGC (Crl) Only A Professional Engagement Which Can Be Terminated Sans Notice/Reason: Allahabad HC
The Allahabad High Court has clarified that appointment to the posts of District/Additional Government Counsel (Criminal) [DGC/ADGC (Crl.)] by the State Government is a professional engagement of an advocate and the same is not a civil post and hence, such an engagement can be terminated on either side without notice and without assigning any reason.Holding that the action of the State in...
Hapur Incident: Judicial Committee Constituted By Allahabad High Court To Redress Lawyers' Grievance To Convene On Sept 16
The Judicial Committee constituted by the Allahabad High Court to address the grievances raised at the Bar with respect to the Hapur Incident will convene on 16th September at 11:00 am.As per a notice released by the Senior Registrar (Judicial),“The Hon'ble Chairperson of the Committee has been pleased to direct that the Committee shall hold its meeting in the Committee Room, of the...
Lawyers Strike: Allahabad High Court Refrains From Making Observations On Bar Council's Competence To Issue Resolutions For Abstinence From Work
"Exercising judicial restraint", the Allahabad High Court today refrained from making any observations on the (lack of) authority of the UP Bar Council to issue resolutions calling for lawyers strike, contrary to the statute and judgments of the Supreme Court.Justice Kshitij Shailendra however penned his dismay at the continued strike by lawyers over Police lathicharge on lawyers in...
Lawyers Grievance Not Greater Than Tears & Pain Of Litigants: Allahabad High Court On Continuous Strike By Lawyers
The Judges of the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday expressed displeasure over the continued abstinence from work by the lawyers since 30th August, 2023. The lawyers have been abstaining from work across the State of UP due to the Police lathicharge on lawyers in Hapur District. Justice Kshitij Shailendra observed that the Registrar General had issued due communication on Monday for...
Allahabad High Court To Hear Bunch Of Pleas Concerning Gyanvapi-Kashi Title Dispute On September 18
The Allahabad High Court will hear on September 18 the pleas concerning the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi land title dispute including a petition against the Varanasi Court's ASI survey order of 2021.The bench of Chief Justice Pritinker Diwaker today heard the cases and posted the matter for further hearing on September 18.This development comes a day after the CJ bench's order of August 28 was...
'In Politics, There Are No Permanent Friends Or Enemies': Allahabad HC, Says Election Pleas Ought To Be Decided At The Earliest
The Allahabad High Court, while dismissing an election petition filed by one Rajendra Kumar, a BJP leader, challenging the election of the then Bijnor BJP MP Kunwar Bhartendra Singh in the 2014 Loksabha polls, observed that in political life, there are no permanent enemies or friends.Noting that not only the term of Lok Sabha 2014-2019 was over but the term of subsequent Lok Sabha 2019-2024...
GST | Allow Assesee To Upload ITC-01 To Claim Input Tax Credit: Allahabad High Court
The Allahabad High Court has allowed the assessee-petitioner to upload ITC-01 to enable him to avail of Input Tax Credit for shifting from the Composite Scheme to the Normal Scheme.The Petitioner was initially registered under the Composition Scheme for the Financial Year 2022-23. However, with an increase in its turnover of the Financial Year, it converted into a normal scheme after submitting...
Gyanvapi-Kashi Title Dispute | 'Procedural Aberration, Jurisdictional Impropriety': Allahabad HC CJ Specifies Reasons For Withdrawing Cases From Single-Judge
In a significant order, the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court has specified the reasons for the withdrawal of the cases concerning the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi land title dispute (from the bench of Justice Prakash Padia) by stating that the decision was taken by him (CJ) on the administrative side "in the interest of judicial propriety and judicial discipline as well as the...