Allahabad High Court

In view of the opposition by lawyers of the High Court, the Allahabad High Court has withdrawn its decision to hear cases virtually in view of rising cases of Covid-19 in Uttar Pradesh both at its principal seat at Allahabad and at the Lucknow Bench.

It is vital for any country governed by the rule of law that its judges decide cases solely on the evidence presented by parties and law. Judicial accountability vanishes when a judge travels beyond the case and makes unnecessary remarks in his decisions. This would set a precarious precedent and is undesirable.

The appeal was filed by seven appellants. The appeal of appellants has already been abated, on account of their deaths, order dated December 23, 2015.

Allahabad High Court has quashed the transfer order of Lab Assistant Om Prakash Gaur in the office of Chief Medical Officer, Deoria.

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.