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The Allahabad High Court has acquitted a woman, who was sentenced to death for killing her three children, observing that the prosecution has failed to establish her guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The court found that the testimony of the eight-year-old surviving child witness suffered from “irreconcilable contradictions” and exhibited “clear hallmarks of tutoring”. A…
Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday rejected the anticipatory bail pleas of two Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel accused in the custodial death of a man in Gonda and said that although the COVID-19 pandemic had ended, “the plague of custodial deaths” did not appear to have abated. Justice Manish Mathur of the Lucknow…
The Allahabad High Court has held that the governor’s power to grant premature release under Article 161 of the Constitution is a sovereign executive power, but it cannot be exercised arbitrarily, as it remains regulated by the applicable rules and remission policy. A bench of Justices J J Munir and Tarun Saxena made the observation…
News india Cash Row Case: Justice Yashwant Varma Resigned, But Can Parliament Still Act Against Him? Last Updated:August 13, 2026, 07:50 IST The controversy began on the night of March 14, 2025, when a fire broke out at Varma’s official residence and burnt currency notes were recovered during firefighting operations Justice Yashwant Varma had resigned…
Last Updated:July 22, 2026, 05:25 IST The sharp observations emerged during a ruling on executive demolitions, commonly termed ‘bulldozer justice’ The observations formed part of a split verdict alongside Justice Siddharth Nandan in a case involving targeted property demolitions in Hamirpur. (Representational image) Addressing the controversy surrounding the alleged embezzlement of donations at the Ram…
Police officers in Uttar Pradesh are more loyal towards the successive ruling dispensations than the Constitution, the Allahabad High Court observed recently. Justice Vinod Diwakar said the “feudal mindset of politicians and bureaucrats” in the state has long reduced constitutional governance to an instrument of personal dominion rather than public service. “The administrative machinery of…
The Allahabad High Court has granted bail to an accused in a rape and murder case with a “heavy heart and great pain” due to the lack of scientific evidence linking the suspect to the crime. Granting bail, the Court said that it expects that the state government would provide high-end machines to Forensic Science…
Last Updated:May 17, 2026, 8:13 PM IST The court made the observation while granting bail to five of the 14 Muslim men accused of organising an Iftar gathering on a boat in the Ganga river. Allahabad High Court (File pic) The Allahabad High Court has observed that throwing non-vegetarian food waste into the Ganga could…
Allahabad High Court has once again sought answers from the UP government on the issue of place of worship and mosque. The High Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh government whether it can seal any place of worship and mosque without any prior notice or giving the property owners an opportunity of being heard. Allahabad…
Last Updated:December 23, 2025, 3:41 PM IST Akhlaq was lynched by a mob in the Dadri area of Gautam Budh Nagar in 2015 over the allegations that he had eaten beef during Eid and had stored it for consumption Akhlaq was lynched to death in 2015. (File) A fast-track court in Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Budh…