The Allahabad High Court has recently held that an employee cannot be deprived of his right due to delay in filling the option for gratuity a year before retirement. The division bench of Justice Surya Prakash Kesarwani and Justice Piyush Agrawal passed this order while hearing the petition filed by one Muharpal Singh.
Allahabad High Court division bench while hearing a Criminal Appeal filed by Shamsher has asked the Director General of Police (DGP) of Uttar Pradesh why information relating to criminal history of a citizen is not in public domain and why it is password protected.
A Public Interest Litigation has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking directions to High Courts to take appropriate steps to adopt uniform procedure for case registration, use common judicial terms, phrases and abbreviations and make the court fee uniform.
The Allahabad High Court has recently issued notice and sought counter-affidavit from the Uttar Pradesh Government on a plea filed against the contentious statements of Waseem Rizvi, who is now known as Jitendra Narayan Singh Tyagi after his conversion, at a Dharam Sansad in Haridwar. He was the former chairman of the Shia Waqf Board.
In view of the increasing cases of coronavirus infections, the Allahabad High Court has urged the Election Commission of India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to postpone the Assembly Elections to be held in Uttar Pradesh next year.
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to fill up the vacant senior level posts of doctors in all medical colleges of the state immediately. Also the Principal Secretary, Medical Education, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow is directed to personally oversee and make sincere efforts to see that not only at Meerut and Saharanpur but in all the other state medical colleges senior-level posts are timely advertised and vacancies are filled expeditiously as it directly affects the teaching of the students.
The Allahabad High Court has allowed the conditional bail application of an accused charged with murder. A single-judge bench of Justice Samit Gopal passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Shahid.
The division bench of Allahabad High Court observed that: "The prosecution failed to prove that the victim was last seen with the appellant. Also, there is no medical evidence against the appellant."