
Allahabad: In yet another indictment of land acquisition policy of previous Mayawati government, the Allahabad High Court on Wednesday quashed acquisition of 68 hectares of village land on pretext of "planned industrial development" in Greater Noida and held that invoking of urgency clause for the purpose was "tainted with malafides". A Division Bench comprising justices Sunil Ambwani and Het Singh Yadav passed the order on a writ petition filed by...

08:12 PM, May 30, 2012

New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court will continue to hear Nupur Talwar's bail plea on Monday. The dentist and her husband Rajesh Talwar have been formally charged with the murder of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj by a lower court. Rajesh Talwar has also been charged with misleading the investigation in the double murder case. During the arguments on the framing of charges, the CBI had asked for...

07:15 AM, May 28, 2012

Allahabad: Acquisition of land in yet another village of Gautam Buddh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh was on Friday set aside by the Allahabad High Court. A Division Bench comprising justices Sunil Ambwani and Aditya Nath Mittal while asking the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) to "return the land" in Surajpur village under Dadri Pargana of the district to the petitioners, also ruled that they shall be "entitled to...

08:13 PM, May 25, 2012

Ghaziabad: Murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar's parents, Nupur and Rajesh, have been charged with murder, destruction of evidence and conspiracy in the sensational double murder case in which their domestic help was also found dead. Rajesh Talwar has also been charged with misleading the investigation in the double murder case. During the arguments on the framing of charges, the CBI had asked for Sections 302, 201, 203, 34 of the Indian...

02:19 PM, May 25, 2012

New Delhi: Murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar's mother Nupur Talwar has filed for bail at the Allahabad High Court in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case. The bail application will come up for hearing on Wednesday. The Supreme Court will on Wednesday also hear the Talwars' review petition to quash charges against them. Meanwhile, there was some relief for the Talwars. The Ghaziabad Sessions Court has ordered the CBI to share documents...

01:59 PM, May 14, 2012

Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court on Monday directed the Central government to present its views on a PIL challenging nomination of cricketer Sachin Tendulkar to the Rajya Sabha. The Lucknow Bench of the Court passed the order on a PIL filed by local lawyer Ashok Pandey on May two. The petition had sought a direction for quashing the recent nomination of Tendulkar to the Rajya Sabha. The petitioner alleged the...

10:59 PM, May 07, 2012

New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court on Monday is set to hear the CBI's petition seeking cancellation of the bail plea of Rajesh Talwar, one of the prime accused in Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case. Rajesh is currently out on bail which was sanctioned by the Supreme Court. The investigative agency had filed a petition in April challenging the bail grant which was later extended by the Ghaziabad Sessions Court. Aarushi,...

07:01 AM, May 07, 2012

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday will be hearing Nupur and Rajesh Talwar's review petition against the trial in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case. The apex court will also be hearing Nupur's bail plea application. Nupur is facing trial in the murder case along with her husband Rajesh. Aarushi's parents had filed a review plea after the Supreme Court refused to quash trial proceedings against them. On Wednesday, Nupur...

07:29 AM, May 04, 2012

Allahabad: Nupur Talwar, prime accused in the 2008 murder of her daughter Aarushi and domestic servant Hemraj, on Thursday initiated the process for filing a bail petition in the Allahabad High Court, a day after a Ghaziabad court refused to grant her relief. "A notice has been sent to the CBI informing the agency that we will be filing a bail application in the court's registry after nine days," Talwar's...

08:18 PM, May 03, 2012

Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court on Thursday stayed criminal proceedings against Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt at a court in Mau district of Uttar Pradesh where a case was lodged during the 2009 Lok Sabha elections accusing him of having delivered an "inflammatory" speech. The order was passed by Justice Bala Krishna Narayana on a petition filed by Dutt who had challenged the criminal proceedings initiated against him in pursuance of...

08:09 PM, May 03, 2012

New Delhi: Complying with an order of the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry on Wednesday asked the media not to telecast any programme pertaining to movement of Indian troops. The ministry has said the High Court in the matter pertaining to a petition filed by Nutan Thakur had considered the issue of reports related to movement of troops in the media. The ministry said...

08:35 PM, Apr 11, 2012

Lucknow: The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday directed the Centre and Uttar Pradesh government to ensure that there is no reporting on movement of troops by print or electronic media, days after a newspaper report on movement of two army units towards Delhi had created a storm. "Without interfering with the independence of media and keeping in view the fact that the news items relating to movements of troops has...

08:03 AM, Apr 11, 2012

Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court on Monday suspended the bail plea order of Nupur Talwar, the mother of murdered teenager Aarushi Talwar. The court stayed the order giving time for Aarushis mother to appear before the trial court. Nupur, an accused in the Aarushi Talwar murder case has been asked by the Allahabad High Court to file a reply within three weeks. Rajesh Talwar and his wife Nupur have been...

04:35 PM, Apr 09, 2012

Lucknow The Allahabad High Court on Thursday reserved its order on a PIL seeking removal of Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid for his remarks on reservation for minorities. The order was issued by the Lucknow bench comprising senior judge Justice Uma Nath Singh and Justice Rituraj Awasthi after hearing the counsel of both the sides. In his PIL, local lawyer Ashok Pandey has alleged that such statement made by Khurshid...

12:29 PM, Feb 16, 2012

Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday turned down a writ petition filed by Team Anna member Shanti Bhushan challenging an order of Assistant Stamp Commissioner here which held him guilty of evading stamp duty to the tune of about Rs 1.35 crore on a property. Justice Arun Tandon passed the order adding that Bhushan could seek 'statutory remedy' by approaching the Registrar (Stamps) as per the provisions of Stamp...

03:54 PM, Feb 01, 2012