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The Division Bench found the FSL report inadmissible for recording bare conclusions without scientific criteria, and held key prosecution witnesses entirely unreliable on material facts.
The Allahabad High Court refused bail to a man accused of hacking a victim's phone, posting obscene photographs on Instagram, and demanding Rs 5 lakh to delete them.
Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench grants anticipatory bail in a 24-year-old abduction case after proceedings stalled, a Section 482 petition was dismissed for want of prosecution, and the trial court finally issued bailable warrants in May 2026.
Justice Santosh Rai dismissed a 1982 appeal, affirming five years' rigorous imprisonment for a man who inflicted ten knife wounds on a lone woman, while noting the trial court omitted mandatory fine.
The Allahabad High Court partly allowed a criminal appeal, setting aside convictions for rape and aggravated penetrative sexual assault under POCSO, and substituting a conviction for aggravated sexual assault after finding penetration unproved.
A Division Bench declined to quash a fraud FIR against a former UP legislator but transferred the probe to SFIO, finding the alleged scheme was already before a Special Court.
Three Gorakhpur police officers were attached to the police line and the State was directed to pay Rs 1 lakh to the applicant after bail instructions were repeatedly not supplied to court.
The Allahabad High Court directed its Registrar to file a criminal complaint before a Magistrate against an advocate and petitioner after a Forensic Science Laboratory report found their signatures on court documents did not match.
The Allahabad High Court quashed three orders against Pidilite Industries over M-Seal Phataphat weight violations, finding the Legal Metrology Department bypassed mandatory preconditions for retail inspection.
A Division Bench held that land acquisition proceedings under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894 cannot begin before the Section 4(1) notification is actually published, regardless of the date printed on it.
Allahabad High Court upholds a Bareilly executing court's power to correct a typographical locality error in a 1975 specific-performance decree under Sections 47 and 152 CPC.
The Allahabad High Court held that a transfer order passed by a Sessions Judge under Section 408 CrPC can only be challenged via the inherent powers under Section 482 CrPC, not through a fresh Section 407 petition.
An irrigation department employee who voluntarily retired could not then challenge the leave sanctioned to regularise his absence, the Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench held.
Justice Prakash Padia quashed three administrative orders passed against Sunbeam School, Varanasi, finding them ex-parte, without jurisdiction, and tainted by mala fides of the district administration.
A Division Bench set aside 40-year-old convictions for murder under Section 302 IPC, holding that the prosecution's two star eye-witnesses were projected with afterthought and their evidence was wholly unreliable.
Razzak's Section 326 IPC conviction is confirmed but the Allahabad High Court sharply censures the trial court for omitting mandatory fine and for failing to consider culpable homicide.
Justice Lakshmi Kant Shukla dismissed a revision challenging the Family Court's refusal of interim maintenance to the wife, holding that her own assertion of financial capacity in a custody proceeding estopped her from fastening the entire burden on the father.
Allahabad High Court dismisses appeal against framing of charges, holding a handwritten suicide note naming the accused and recording persistent humiliation constitutes prima facie material for abetment of suicide trial.
Justice Subhash Vidyarthi holds that original trial court records must still be sent to the High Court in criminal conviction and acquittal appeals, distinguishing Supreme Court directions on photocopies.
Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal granted bail to Asharaf Khan, citing zero trial progress since charge framing, speedy trial rights, and parity with a co-accused already released on bail.
A Division Bench found that possession of surplus urban land was taken before the Urban Land Ceiling Repeal Act, 1999, and the writ petition was filed after an unexplained delay of over eleven years.
A tenant's bid to appoint an Advocate Commissioner to prove a newly constructed building exemption under the U.P. Rent Control Act failed at every level, including before the High Court.
Justice Vikas Budhwar held that Section 10 of the U.P. General Clauses Act saved an election petition filed on the first day courts reopened after summer vacation, as no notification barred its acceptance during vacation.
A complainant challenged a Sessions Judge's order transferring a trial to follow the Presiding Officer who had recorded nine prosecution witnesses; the Allahabad High Court dismissed the petition.
