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News india Meerut Blue Drum Murder: Muskan Rastogi, Sahil Shukla Challenge Death Sentence In HC, Cite ‘Evidence Gaps’ Last Updated:October 25, 2026, 06:08 IST The case pertains to the March 2025 killing of Muskan’s husband Saurabh Rajput within the Brahmpuri police station jurisdiction in Meerut Muskaan Rastogi and Sahil Shukla were sentenced to death for…
News india ‘Every Failed Marriage Cannot Be…’: Allahabad High Court Quashes Dowry Harassment FIR Last Updated:October 11, 2026, 09:51 IST The Allahabad High Court emphasised the need to distinguish matrimonial discord from criminal conduct. The allegations in the FIR included dowry demands and harassment, denial of food, threats, retention of the wife’s stridhan and an…
News india No Hookah In Restaurants Even In Smoking Areas, Allahabad HC Rules Last Updated:September 29, 2026, 9:53 PM IST The Allahabad High Court has ruled that restaurants and other public places cannot serve hookah even in designated smoking areas under existing tobacco control laws. The court held that a designated smoking area does not…
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…