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Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench dismisses writ seeking mandamus for Railway approval of a new Concrete Sleeper Plant, holding extension policy applies only to already-approved plants.
The Lucknow Bench found police personnel visibly passive while lawyers allegedly trespassed and vandalised a disputed property, and summoned senior officers to answer the next day.
A Division Bench quashed an Assistant Inspector General's order cancelling a registered sale deed, holding that only a civil court can invalidate a registered document, even on fraud grounds.
Allahabad High Court holds that a Yatri Plaza operator's purely commercial contract with UPSRTC confers no right to prevent the Corporation from floating a fresh tender for a rival facility on the same route.
Justice Vivek Kumar Singh quashed a Section 376 IPC chargesheet, finding a one-and-a-half-year consensual relationship between adults could not be recast as rape merely because the applicant declined to marry the complainant.
The Allahabad High Court dismissed a criminal appeal against charge framing under the SC/ST Act, holding that the Facebook post and witness statements established sufficient prima facie material.
A Division Bench led by Chief Justice Arun Bhansali set aside a Single Judge's order that remitted a societies registration dispute without recording any reasons, restoring the writ petition for fresh hearing.
A Division Bench applied the Supreme Court's Constitution Bench ruling in Pawan Kumar Divedi to hold that an assistant teacher in a primary section is entitled to State salary, setting aside a contrary circular-based rejection.
The Lucknow Bench held that age of a case cannot be decisive when summoning material witnesses whose statements assisted a mentally challenged victim's Section 164 Cr.P.C. recording.
The Lucknow Bench dismissed a petition challenging a show cause notice under the UP Goondas Act, holding the 100-day delay and absence of a service date were fatal to the challenge.
The Allahabad High Court's Lucknow Bench held that a prior refusal of judicial remand does not fetter the Investigating Officer's authority or the trial court's power to take cognizance independently.
A Division Bench dismissed a writ petition seeking directions on Chief Minister's Portal complaints about stolen cheques, holding that the petitioner had not established any legal right enforceable by mandamus.
Justice Sanjiv Kumar partly allowed a 1988 criminal appeal, acquitting four women for want of participation evidence while affirming conviction of Bhajan Lal and Ramanand under the free-fight doctrine.
Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal holds that the word "husband" in BNS Sections 80 and 85 covers only a legally married man, but carves out two exceptions where a void marriage will not shield an accused.
Justice Prakash Padia held that a clerk appointed on compassionate grounds in 2013 could not be removed in 2025 without inquiry or charge-sheet, especially when the department had full knowledge of relevant facts at appointment.
Allahabad High Court dismisses Article 227 petition, holding that the 30-year limitation under Article 61(a) for redemption of a usufructuary mortgage begins only when the mortgagor tenders or pays the mortgage money.
A Division Bench of the Allahabad High Court has held that an appointment obtained by submitting a forged caste certificate is void ab initio and attracts no protection under Article 311 of the Constitution.
The Lucknow Bench rejected the CBI's initial response as non-compliant, directed a Joint Director to file a fresh affidavit, and kept the writ petition record in sealed cover.
An advocate accused of stalking a fellow advocate had his interim bail cancelled after he entered court premises despite an express undertaking, and also sent an application directly to the judge.
The Indore Bench quashed three executive directives by a Collector ordering police to recall a Closure Report, holding such interference with the statutory investigative process is without jurisdiction.
The Allahabad High Court held that the State's unexplained delay in invoking Rule 58 of the U.P. Minor Minerals Rules to cancel a sand-mining lease was arbitrary, relieving the lessee of two royalty instalments that accrued during that delay.
Allahabad High Court rules that an order rejecting recall of an ex parte release order under UP Rent Control Act is a procedural order under Section 34, not appealable under Section 22.
A Division Bench held that a mining lease renewal application filed without a mining plan and no-dues certificate was not a valid application, disentitling the lessee from Section 8A(6) deemed extension.
The Allahabad High Court quashed a 1979 Joint Director of Consolidation order granting co-tenancy rights, restoring the appellate finding that the disputed khata was acquired exclusively by the petitioners' father Chetai.
