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Allahabad HC takes 4 decades to decide on murder conviction appeal
The Supreme Court was extremely disappointed on Monday to find that a man — arrested as a 28-year-old in Nov 1983 for shooting dead a person — waited for more than four decades in the Allahabad high court for a decision on his appeal against conviction and a life term awarded by a trial court. A visibly disturbed bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and AS Chandurkar wondered as to what innovative measures could be taken to free the clogged wheels of justice in the Allahabad HC, where...
Wife loses mobile number after husband's 'bogus complaint', Allahabad HC slams cyber cell
The Allahabad high court has strongly criticised the Lucknow Cyber Cell after a woman's mobile number was blocked allegedly on the basis of a complaint linked to a matrimonial dispute with her husband, observing that state authorities had acted mechanically and allowed a government mechanism to be misused. A division bench comprising Justice J.J. Munir and Justice Tarun Saxena was hearing a petition filed by a woman seeking restoration of her mobile number, which had been blocked following...
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Workers unload air coolers from a delivery truck during a heat wave in Allahabad, India.
Police officers in UP more loyal to ruling dispensation than Constitution, says HC
Prayagraj: The Allahabad high court remarked that police officers in Uttar Pradesh appear to be more loyal to the ruling dispensation than to the Constitution. Stressing that constitutional governance cannot be held hostage to individual convenience or expediency, the court said the state machinery must remain accountable to the law and the Constitution rather than to any political establishment in power. In a June 3 judgment, Justice Vinod Diwakar said that Uttar Pradesh’s “feudal mindset...
Relief for seer Avimukteshwaranand: SC upholds pre-arrest bail in POCSO case
The Allahabad high court in March granted anticipatory bail to Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati and his disciple Mukundanand Brahmachari in a POCSO case alleging sexual exploitation of minor disciples. Justice Jitendra Kumar Sinha, while allowing their plea, directed both the accused and the complainant, Ashutosh Maharaj, not to speak to the media about the case. The court had earlier stayed Avimukteshwaranand's arrest on February 27 and reserved its verdict after directing the applicants...
Constitution expert Subhash Kashyap dies at 97
Subhash C Kashyap, whose encyclopaedic knowledge of constitutional law and parliamentary affairs made him the go-to person for politicians, bureaucrats and journalists alike, and whose books on Parliament became bestsellers and mandatory reading for students of political science and law, died at his residence following “cardio-pulmonary arrest” on Thursday morning. Kashyap served as Lok Sabha’s secretary general from 1984-90, but was associated with Parliament for over three and a half...