Tag: Allahabad High Court

Allahabad HC bars BSP’s Mukhtar Ansari from voting in RS polls

A day before the biennial polls for the 10 seats of the Rajya Sabha, the Allahabad High Court on Thursday barred Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) legislator Mukhtar Ansari from voting, an official said. The high court, staying the earlier order of the Ghazipur court which had allowed the mafia don-turned-politician to vote in polls on...

March 23, 2018

SC issues notice to Talwars on plea against acquittal

The Supreme Court on Monday issued notice to Rajesh and Nupur Talwar on a plea challenging their acquittal in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case by the Allahabad High Court. Hemraj was the Talwars’ domestic help. The apex court has agreed to hear two appeals challenging the acquittal of the dentist couple as the Central Bureau...

March 20, 2018

Ayodhya row: Sri Sri renews appeal to AIMPLB to consider out of court settlement

Says going through the court will be a loss for both Hindus and Muslims, and an out-of-court settlement would be a 'win-win situation' for both communities

March 6, 2018

Gorakhpur deaths: UP HC rejects oxygen supplier’s bail plea

The Allahabad High Court has rejected the bail plea of the proprietor of a firm which supplied oxygen to the government-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur where dozens of children died last year. More than 60 children, mostly infants, had died at the hospital within a week in August, 2017. There were allegations...

February 14, 2018

Wishful thinking

With all due respect to their Lordships, the Supreme Court will have to wave the judicial equivalent of a magic wand if there is to be any acceptance of its desire that the Ramjanambhoomi-Babari Masjid case be treated as simple title-suit. For had the decades-old controversy been a dispute over a mere 2.77 acres of...

February 10, 2018

SC to deal with Ayodhya case as land dispute

The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will deal with the Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid case as a “pure land” dispute and refused to hear it on day-to-day basis. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer refused the appellants’ plea for day-to-day hearing, saying “over 700 poor litigants...

February 9, 2018

Change in the air?

The Supreme Court Collegium stood effectively shattered when the quartet ~ Justices J Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, Madan B Lokur and Kurian Joseph ~ held a first-ever press conference on 12 January against the Chief Justice of India and dramatically declared democracy to be in danger. To make the impact of their dire warning more chillingly...

January 21, 2018

Bureaucracy misleading people for 70 years, says Allahabad HC

The Allahabad High Court (HC) on Thursday made a damning remark on the bureaucracy, saying government officials have only mislead people in the last 70 years. The observation came from Justice S.P. Kesharwani while hearing the case of one Dulari Devi, who has been fighting her case for the last 19 years. Rapping the bureaucracy...

December 15, 2017

Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri mosque title dispute: SC adjourns hearing till 8 Feb

A day before the 25th anniversary of Babri Masjid demolition, the Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday adjourned the hearing in the long-standing Ram Janmbhoomi-Babri mosque title dispute to 8 February. The SC bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra, Justice Ashok Bhushan and Justice S Abdul Nazeer directed that all the advocates on record will work...

December 5, 2017

Talwars’ lawyers receive HC order copy, couple to walk free on ‘Monday’

The lawyers of the dentist couple — Rajesh and Nupur Talwar– received a certified copy of the Allahabad High Court order on late Friday night, acquitting the dentist couple in the murder case of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj. The lawyers said the order copy will be provided to a special CBI court in Ghaziabad on...

October 14, 2017

Bumbling sleuths

Every person who has donned a police uniform would have cause for shame after the verdict of the Allahabad High Court in the sensational “Aarushi Murder Case” on Thursday. It is difficult to determine which is the more ugly side of the criminal justice system now back under the spotlight: the killers of a teenage...

October 14, 2017

Aarushi case: HC judge says CBI trial court judge ‘unmindful’ of law

Justice AK Mishra of the Allahabad High Court made scathing remarks on the CBI trial court judge, saying that he was “unmindful” of basic tenets of law in his 2013 conviction judgement of the Talwar couple in the murder case of their daughter and domestic servant. According to the judgement copy, Judge Arvind Kumar Mishra...

October 13, 2017

Four years after conviction, Talwars set free in Aarushi murder case

Four years after their conviction and given life terms, dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were on Thursday acquitted in the 2008 murders of their teenage daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj by the Allahabad High Court that gave them the benefit of doubt, a verdict that left questions unanswered on who killed them. A...

October 12, 2017

Aarushi murder case verdict: Talwars pronounced not guilty by Allahabad HC

A division bench of the Allahabad High Court acquitted Rajesh Talwar and Nupur Talwar,  in the murder case of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj, on Thursday. The couple was granted bail by the High Court. The Talwar-couple have been in Ghazibad’s Dasna jail since 2013. According to media reports, High Court gave the...

October 12, 2017

Ayodhya case: Two new observers appointed at disputed site

Two additional district judges have been appointed as observers at the Babri Masjid- Ram Janambhoomi site in Ayodhya by the Allahabad High Court. The observers are Additional District Judge, Basti, Irfan Ahmad and Additional District Judge, Faizabad, Amarjeet Tripathi. They will submit fortnightly reports to the Supreme Court on the disputed site’s status quo and...

September 22, 2017

Equity fused with right

The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act was enacted in 2009. The RTE Act uniquely creates an obligation for unaided private schools located within a range of one km from the house of an applicant to provide primary education until class 8 free of cost. For the education provided, such unaided private...

August 27, 2017

HC quashes Yogi Adityanath’s order sacking Shia Waqf Board members

In a major setback to the Uttar Pradesh government, Allahabad High Court on Friday quashed an order removing six members of the Shia Waqf Board. The court ordered immediate reinstatement of the six members who were booted out at the orders of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The BJP government had removed the six members after...

June 23, 2017