The Election Commission of India has told the Allahabad High Court that polling stations will be video-graphed in line with its Handbook for Returning Officers, and that was enough to end a candidate’s petition asking for continuous, uninterrupted recording. The Court closed the writ petition “in terms of the statement made on behalf of respondents.” […]
Twenty years was too long to wait: the Allahabad High Court has held that an Ambedkar Nagar delimitation order can be reviewed only on two narrow grounds, and that a petition filed two decades later cannot unsettle the arrangement. Lucknow: A writ petition to redraw the Ambedkar Nagar delimitation and the reservation of Assembly constituencies […]
The Allahabad High Court has held that restaurants in Uttar Pradesh cannot provide hookah service even in Designated Smoking Areas, because the amended Rule 4(3) of the 2008 Smoking Rules prohibits any service in a smoking area, and that a non-smoker’s right to clean air under Article 21 cannot be abridged by commercial interest.
