The Uttar Pradesh government led by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday applied for the withdrawal of murder case against former MLA Uday Bhan Karwariya and a hearing will take place on Monday at the Allahabad High Court. Uday Bhan Karwariya’s wife, Neelam Karwariya is a BJP MLA from Meja[Read More…]
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Sheroes Hangout Cafe Lucknow: SC gives stay order of 9 months to the acid attack survivors
The Supreme Court of India gives 9 months of stay order for shutting down the Sheroes Hangout Café Lucknow. The SC has also directed the Allahabad High court to depose the case within nine months. Anshu Rajpoot an acid attack survivor and one of the petitioners in the case was[Read More…]
Allahabad High Court fines three doctors with Rs 5,000 for bad handwriting
Owing to the poor handwriting of the doctors, the injury reports of the victims in three criminal cases could not be read following which a Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court penalised three doctors with Rs 5,000 fine on account of their unintelligible handwriting. The reports were issued by the[Read More…]
Aarushi murder case: Allahabad HC points to Talwars’ compounder as main suspect
After Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were acquitted in the Aarushi murder case, the Allahabad High Court pointed towards Talwars’ compounder, Krishna Thadarai, as the main suspect in the case. While castigating the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for having “tampered with the case property”, the court observed that the agency[Read More…]
Aarushi-Hemraj murder case: Rajesh, Nupur Talwar acquitted by Allahabad High Court
In a significant verdict, the Allahabad High Court has acquitted Rajesh and Nupur Talwar on Thursday in Aarushi – Hemraj murder case. They were accused killing their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj in 2008. The married couple was given life sentence by a special CBI court in Ghaziabad in[Read More…]
Allahabad HC to pronounce verdict in Aarushi murder case today
The Allahabad High Court on Thursday will announce its judgement in the Aarushi Talwar murder case and decide the fate of the late girl’s parents and doctor couple, Rajesh and Nupur Talwar. They are currently serving life imprisonment in Ghaziabad’s Dasna Jail after they were convicted for the gruesome murder[Read More…]
Singing of national anthem must in madrasas: Allahabad HC
The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday rejected the plea seeking exemption from singing national anthem in the madrasas. The petition challenged the order issued by the state government in Uttar Pradesh, which instructed madrasas across the state to sing national anthem on Independence day. The madrasas were asked to videograph[Read More…]
Child from second wife entitled to compassionate appointment in govt jobs: HC
A child born from a second wife is also entitled to be appointed by the state government on compassionate grounds (if the second marriage took place during the lifetime of the first wife), the Allahabad high court has ruled. Appointments are made on compassionate grounds when family’s bread earner passes[Read More…]
Yogi Adityanath offers prayers at makeshift Ram Temple in Ayodhya
On Wednesday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visited Ayodhya, first time after taking over the office as the CM, and offered prayers at the makeshift Ram temple. Before this, he had also made a trip to the Hanumangarhi temple, one of the pious places for Hindus in the city.[Read More…]
Babri Masjid case: BJP leaders to appear in special CBI court today
In connection to the Babri Masjid demolition case, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders L.K. Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, and Union Minister Uma Bharti are expected to appear before a special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Lucknow on Tuesday. The court had earlier directed them to appear before[Read More…]
2007 Hate Speech: Allahabad HC restrains court from passing order on closure report
An Allahabad High Court bench comprising Justices Umesh Chandra Srivastava and Ramesh Sinha has “restrained” a Gorakhpur court from passing any order on the closure report in the 2007 hate speech case, in which UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had been named. The order was passed on May 11, the[Read More…]
Supreme Court to continue hearing on validity of triple talaq
The Apex Court on Thursday will continue hearing pleas by Muslim women rejecting their religious convention of practising triple talaq. The hearing will be conducted under a five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Jagdish Singh Khehar and four other judges, namely Justices Kurian Joseph, Rohinton Fali[Read More…]
Triple Talaq, a violation of equality: Allahabad HC
Alongside the continuous debate on triple talaq, the Allahabad High Court on Tuesday acknowledged that women’ s basic human rights cannot be violated under the shield of a personal law. As per the HC judgement, triple talaq was termed as a violation of equality. It added that the Muslim men[Read More…]
Allahabad High Court transfers 400 judicial officers
The Allahabad High Court has transferred around 400 judicial officers in a major reshuffle in the lower judiciary in Uttar Pradesh. According to the notifications issued on Friday by the High Court’s Registrar General Dinesh Kumar Singh, the transferred officials included 199 Additional District Judges (ADJ) and another eight of[Read More…]
Judge suspended for granting bail to rape-accused SP leader Gayatri Prajapati
The Allahabad High Court judge has suspended a judge of a Lucknow court for granting bail to rape-accused Samajwadi Party leader and former Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prajapati. The SP leader is accused of raping a woman and attempting to rape her minor daughter. The 49-year-old leader was granted bail[Read More…]
RBI to issue new ₹5 and ₹10 coins
The Reserve Bank of India is soon to issue new Rs 10 and Rs 5 coins to honor the 125th year of National Archives of India. In order to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Allahabad High Court, the central bank will put new Rs 5 coins into circulation. As per[Read More…]
Allahabad HC orders sealing of 1,000 flats in Greater Noida
Triple talaq unconstitutional: Allahabad HC
The Allahabad High Court on Thursday declared triple talaq as unconstitutional and said that it violates the rights of Muslim women. In an indirect reference to All India Muslim Personal Law Board, the court said “ no Personal Law Board is above the Constitution.” The Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA)[Read More…]