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Justice Samit Gopal suspended the sentences of Mohd Azam Khan and Mohd Abdullah Azam Khan, who have spent over four years and three and a half years in custody in a fixed-term case, but held that their criminal antecedents left no justifiable reason to stay the convictions that keep them out of the coming Assembly election, and admitted the revisions for fin
Justice Pankaj Bhatia held at Lucknow that keeping Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya teachers for more than 15 years on 11-month-29-day contracts at an honorarium below semi-skilled wages violates Articles 14 and 23, directed the State to sanction posts and frame service conditions within four months, and ordered Rs 17,000 a month to every KGBV teacher in the
On remand from the Supreme Court, Justice Samit Gopal dismissed the appeals of the brother of a petrol pump employee who died after a glass door was smashed into his neck, holding that the Special Judge had granted bail on detailed orders after two prosecution witnesses were examined and that nothing showed misuse of liberty, tampering or non-cooperation.
Chief Justice Arun Bhansali and Justice Jaspreet Singh, sitting at Lucknow, held that an arbitral tribunal cannot compound interest when the contract is silent, and used the Gayatri Balasamy guardrails to modify the award against the State of Uttar Pradesh rather than set it aside.
Chief Justice Arun Bhansali and Justice Jaspreet Singh, sitting at Lucknow, dismissed the U.P. Electronics Corporation appeal under Section 37, holding that a claim signed by a partner who died before it was filed did not abate and that an unproven fraud plea cannot unsettle an award.
Justices Prakash Padia and Indrajeet Shukla allowed a writ petition for admitted dues, drawing the line between a petition being maintainable and a court choosing to entertain it.
Justice Santosh Rai set aside a Special Judge's order under Section 173(4) of the BNSS, holding it non-speaking and made without the inquiry the statute requires.
Justice Santosh Rai sets aside an order directing investigation into a night raid alleged by two Scheduled Caste women, holding that Section 175(3) of the BNSS imposes three distinct duties and that the omission "goes to the very exercise of jurisdiction" — and circulates the judgment to every judicial officer in the State.
Justices Atul Sreedharan and Achal Sachdev answer a capital reference in the negative and commute two death sentences to life — then order the Director General of Police to inquire into the officers who prepared the inquests, with a report to the Registrar General within three months.
Justices Abdul Moin and Pramod Kumar Srivastava hold the circumstances relied on by the prosecution do not form a complete chain, call the trial court's findings perverse, and order the release of a man who has been in jail throughout.
A Division Bench of Justices Siddharth and Vinai Kumar Dwivedi convert a conviction under Section 302 read with Section 149 into one under Section 304 Part II, uphold the lesser convictions, and order surrender before the Chief Judicial Magistrate within fifteen days.
A Division Bench of Justices Chandra Dhari Singh and Tarun Saxena quash a Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Dowry Prohibition Act FIR against a husband and his family, holding that the foundational requirement of particularity is itself statutory and must be satisfied before the criminal process can be set in motion.
Justice Pankaj Bhatia dismissed a KGMU professor's four writ petitions and a contempt application, holding that grievances withheld from the charge sheet reply cannot be raised first in writ.
Justice Siddharth Nandan finds two Division Bench rulings in conflict on whether a teacher must be heard before the Inspector approves a suspension, and keeps the orders in abeyance meanwhile.
Justice Manish Mathur accepts that a second arrest in custody is a fresh arrest and that an Article 22(1) breach vitiates remand, then holds the remedy expires when the Section 167 stage does.
Justices Rajan Roy and Manjive Shukla set aside Condition 10 of a UPPSC advertisement and gave the Commission three months to revisit its 2020 office memorandum on migration.
Justices Shekhar B. Saraf and Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary dismiss a batch of writ petitions, holding the 2017 amendment bars every service inside a designated smoking area.
An earlier order in his favour had become final. The Allahabad High Court holds that finality does not authenticate a forged document, or create a post that never existed.
A question in the Legislative Assembly produced four reports and two orders against fifteen teachers the government had approved and paid for years. The Allahabad High Court sets them aside and says any fresh inquiry cannot begin with the answer already written.
A toddy tapper knocked down in 2017 was valued by the Tribunal at Rs 5,000 a month. On an oral cross-objection with no appeal of their own, his family walk away with Rs 11.43 lakh.
