Whether the POCSO Act applies at all depends on age, and the Allahabad High Court has flagged false victim age certificates in POCSO cases, even as the Uttar Pradesh government put before it draft guidelines for recording and verifying a student’s date of birth from school records. Allahabad: Granting bail to the accused in a […]
No determination of their leases and no plan to rehabilitate or compensate them: the Allahabad High Court has called the Arbitrary Eviction Of Ayodhya Shopkeepers to make way for a government hospital highly condemnable, and wants the State to explain how it will rehabilitate or compensate them. Lucknow: Six shopkeepers at the Sitapur Eye Hospital […]
The Allahabad High Court has refused to let the State of Uttar Pradesh reopen, as collusive, a 1977 decree for ejectment, rent and damages that was maintained in appeal, second appeal and before the Supreme Court, holding that the State contested the suits at every stage. Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has held that decrees […]
The rejection of a selected UP Police constable candidate over a pending criminal case has been set aside by the Allahabad High Court, which held that police department instructions on character verification cannot override the 1958 Government Order that still governs character certificates on first appointment. Prayagraj: Setting aside the order rejecting the candidature of […]
Allahabad High Court stays compensation direction against the Uttar Pradesh Government in the case of two adult sisters who said they were confined by their father after embracing Islam, while leaving their release undisturbed. Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has stayed, until further orders, a Single Judge’s direction requiring the State of Uttar Pradesh to […]
Supreme Court Asks Allahabad High Court Chief Justice to examine whether matters on non-release of pension can be given prioritised hearing and early disposal, after a retired peon’s writ petition filed in 2018 was left unlisted. New Delhi: The Supreme Court has requested the Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court to examine whether pension […]
Thirty-two years as a peon, then nearly ten years waiting for a pension. The Supreme Court has pulled up the Uttar Pradesh government over the retired peon’s pension delay, calling pension a deferred payment for services already rendered and not a bounty or charity. New Delhi: Shocked that the Uttar Pradesh government had not paid […]
The Allahabad High Court has held that Rule 4(3)(b) of the U.P. Government Servant (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, 1999 places a mandatory obligation on the competent authority to take an express decision on a representation against deemed suspension made after release from custody, and that continuing the suspension beyond release must rest on a conscious […]
The Ayodhya Ram Temple has faced allegations of financial irregularities involving donations, jewellery, gold and other offerings from devotees. Legal petitions seek an independent probe, while the temple trust denies wrongdoing. The Uttar Pradesh government has formed a three-member SIT to investigate the claims.
