Tag: Allahabad High Court

A woman lawyer of Allahabad High Court, on Friday, threatened to immolate herself with her three-year-old son outside the Supreme Court if action is not taken against the two men, who allegedly gang-raped her for years.

The Court reduced the sentence of the appellant from 10 years of rigorous imprisonment to 7 years, and a fine of Rs 5,000, since 'penetrative sexual assault' under Section 4 is a "lesser offence" than 'aggravated penetrative sexual assault' under Section 6.

Lucknow: The CBI on Friday arrested Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, an accused in the rape of a 17-year-old girl in the state’s Unnao. Sengar, the MLA from Bangarmau in Unnao district, was arrested after being questioned at the CBI office here. The agency filed three FIRs in the case late on Thursday […]

Lucknow: 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 […]

Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court on Thursday observed that dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar could not be held guilty of killing their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj just because they were present in their house when the murders took place in 2008 — a verdict that ended a nine-year ordeal of the parents […]

Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court on Thursday acquitted the Talwar couple in the 2008 murder case of their daughter Aarushi and their domestic help Hemraj, giving them the benefit of doubt. A special CBI court had in 2013 convicted the parents of murdering her. The Talwars had pleaded not guilty and appealed in the Allahabad High […]

The Allahabad High Court today commuted the death sentence of Nithari killing convict Surinder Koli to life imprisonment

New Delhi: Months after an in-house panel found Allahabad High Court’s Justice S N Shukla guilty of misconduct by an internal probe, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to initiate a motion for his removal. A three-judge in-house committee, comprising Madras High Court Chief Justice Indira Banerjee, Sikkim […]

Prayagraj: The Allahabad High Court has refused to grant anticipatory bail to Aparna Purohit, the head of India Originals at Amazon Sellers Service Pvt Ltd, which is showing ‘Tandav’ web series online. A single-judge bench of Justice Siddharth passed this order on Thursday while hearing an anticipatory bail application. The anticipatory bail application had been […]