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Nineteen years after a fertiliser buyer was stabbed on the road home, the State's appeal against the acquittal of two men is dismissed summarily — a power the High Court holds it keeps even after granting leave.
Faced with a claim that the widow's marriage was bigamous and therefore void, the Court answers on standing rather than on Section 11 — the man who lived there had no locus to raise it, and the husband never did.
A widow and her minor daughter were refused protection because the document behind their title had gone. The High Court holds possession admitted by the other side makes a prima facie case on its own.
The allegations were identical, the accused were the same, and they were said to be acting for the same company. The Allahabad High Court clubs the lot into the first FIR and treats the rest as witness statements.
The Railway Claims Tribunal held the unborn child was not a bona fide passenger and dismissed the claim. The Allahabad High Court awards a second Rs 8 lakh for a death it treats as separate from the mother's.
A Division Bench affirms the acquittal in a 1999 railway compartment murder, finding the only two eyewitnesses were relatives whose account the physical evidence did not support.
Finding the enquiry rested on an unproved assumption and withheld documents, the Court orders reinstatement with continuity of service twelve years after the dismissal.
Answering a preliminary objection raised by the State's own law officers, a Division Bench holds Section 385 CrPC governs only appeals that survive summary dismissal under Section 384.
Justice Sandeep Jain held that an adult's choice of faith and life partner cannot be overridden by family disapproval, setting Ayush Malik at liberty after interacting with him in court.
Allahabad High Court quashed Goondas Act proceedings against a Ghaziabad man branded a habitual offender on just two criminal cases, awarding him Rs 50,000 in damages recoverable from bureaucrats' salaries.
Justice Krishan Pahal allowed bail after finding that over two years of incarceration, a slow trial, and an explained criminal history together justified release.
A Division Bench found the State's rejection of Adil @ Seeran's premature release proposal ignored the five-factor Laxman Naskar guidelines and over-relied on the convicting judge's report.
The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench directed authorities to clear illegal encroachments from a wide civic belt, including the Qaiserbagh Telephone Exchange, within five weeks, with natural justice safeguards.
The Lucknow Bench set aside a six-month externment from District Gonda, finding that one surviving FIR from 2020 cannot establish the habitual criminality required under the U.P. Control of Goondas Act, 1970.
A Division Bench dismissed a Kanpur slaughterhouse operator's writ after finding that a Food Safety registration certificate cannot authorise operations exceeding the petty food business threshold under the FSS Act, 2006.
Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal has stayed recovery of over Rs 6.41 crore in damages imposed under the Public Premises Act after a Saharanpur mosque was evicted and demolished within days.
The Allahabad High Court kept a suspension order in abeyance and directed a departmental enquiry to conclude within 15 days, saying charges cannot be examined at the writ stage.
The Lucknow Bench declined to direct the Family Court to expeditiously decide an execution case, finding the petitioner had multiplied parallel maintenance proceedings without pursuing divorce or restitution.
A Division Bench dismissed a writ petition challenging cattle market licences, holding that the Nagar Panchayat's regulatory authority under the UP Municipalities Act includes the power to licence animal markets.
A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court reversed a Single Judge's order, holding that the proviso to Section 23 of the RTE Act saved a teacher's appointment and that the Committee of Management acted with malice in law.
Allahabad High Court dismissed a petition by a woman claiming fraudulent dispossession, holding that a competing title dispute cannot be grafted onto Small Causes Court eviction proceedings through an impleadment application.
