Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court has put a stay on the Akhilesh Yadav government's decision to withdraw cases against terror accused. The Lucknow bench has referred the case to a larger bench.
This came after the UP government announced that it wants to withdraw cases against 16 terror accused in the 2007 serial blasts in Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad. The High Court had earlier questioned the legality of this decision taken by the UP government.
The Samajwadi Party had its in manifesto last year promised to review terror charges against innocent Muslim youth.
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11:53 AM, Jun 07, 2013
Kanpur: A woman in Kanpur, who had been granted bail 19 years ago, was finally released from jail this week after her son - born in a jail - grew up to earn enough money for her bond money. Vijay Kumari is home after 19 years and all thanks to her son Kanhaiya who fought relentlessly against the system to have her back. Kumari had been languishing in jail since...
07:40 AM, May 30, 2013
Ghaziabad: Dentist Rajesh Talwar on Tuesday told special court in Ghaziabad that the CBI did not carry out any dummy test at their Jalvayu Vihar residence where his daughter Aarushi and domestic servant Hemraj were killed five years ago. CBI investigator AGL Kaul, who led the second probe team in connection with the sensational murders, had claimed in his deposition as prosecution witness that he carried out such a test...
06:46 PM, May 21, 2013
Ghaziabad: A special Ghaziabad CBI court is likely to record statements of Rajesh and Nupur Talwar in the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case on Friday. The statements could not be recorded on Tuesday, as scheduled, because the petition of the Talwar couple to summon 14 'crucial' witnesses in the case was pending in the Allahabad High Court. While the special CBI court on Tuesday slammed the "delaying tactics" allegedly being adopted...
09:39 AM, May 17, 2013
Ghaziabad: A special CBI court in Ghaziabad will record the statements of dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar on Tuesday in connection with the murder case of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj. The recording could not take place on Monday as the Talwar couple requested the court to grant them some time to file their petition, seeking summoning of 14 witnesses in the Aarushi-Hemraj murder case trial, in...
08:59 AM, May 14, 2013
Ghaziabad: Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar on Tuesday approached a special CBI court here and sought deposition as court witness of former CBI Joint Director Arun Kumar, whose investigation had claimed that their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj were murdered by servants. The Talwars' counsel moved an application before special judge Shyam Lal requesting for summoning of Kumar as court witness. A separate request for summoning 12 others...
09:09 PM, Apr 30, 2013
Ghaziabad: The CBI investigating team wanted to charge sheet Nupur and Rajesh Talwar and two others in Aarushi-Hemraj murder case but was directed by seniors to file closure report as they felt there wasn't enough material, the officer who led the probe told a court here on Monday. Additional Superintendent of Police AGL Kaul who is being cross examined by the defence counsel said he had enough circumstantial evidence against...
10:05 PM, Apr 22, 2013
Allahabad: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's constituency Amethi in Uttar Pradesh is no longer a district. The Allahabad High Court on Monday struck down the district status of Amethi. Amethi, which was named as Chhatrapati Sahuji Maharaj Nagar by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) government and later renamed as Amethi by the Samajwadi Party government, was carved out of Sultanpur and Rae Bareli districts of northern Uttar Pradesh. Suggesting growing...
01:39 PM, Apr 15, 2013
The Allahabad High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition by a local activist seeking a probe into allegations of irregular land dealings against Robert Vadra levelled by Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal. The petition, filed by Nutan Thakur on October 9, 2012, was dismissed by the court's Lucknow bench of justices Uma Nath Singh and Virendra Kumar Dixit. ...
05:31 PM, Mar 07, 2013
The Supreme Court has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to explain as to why there was a delay in filing the appeal against the Allahabad High Court order in the Babri Masjid demolition case which upheld dropping of conspiracy charges against Bharatiya Janata Party and Vishwa Hindu Parishad leaders. ...
12:16 PM, Feb 07, 2013
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday rejected a PIL by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad against Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Shiva Kirti Singh and Justice Dilip Gupta dismissed in limine the PIL which had sought to make Shinde, the Cabinet Secretary and the Union Home Secretary respondents. ...
09:17 PM, Feb 05, 2013
A petition was filed in the Allahabad High Court accusing Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan of having made a "derogatory" remark, "with malicious intention", about a Holy book in a more than a year-old episode of the TV quiz show 'Kaun Banega Crorepati'. ...
11:12 AM, Jan 24, 2013
The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday sought a report from the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) on the alleged embezzlement of funds from a trust run by External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid and his wife. ...
01:25 AM, Jan 17, 2013
Acting on an Allahabad High Court order, the Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday transferred tainted Chief Executive Officer Noida Sanjeev Saran and placed him on wait list. CEO Greater Noida Rama Raman was given the additional charge in place of Saran, an official spokesman said. ...
06:41 PM, Jan 16, 2013
The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court is set to hear a petition challenging erstwhile Uttar Pradesh Governor TV Rajeswar's refusal to grant sanction to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to prosecute former-UP chief minister Mayawati and her cabinet colleague Naseemuddin Siddiqui in the alleged Taj corridor scandal. ...
09:08 AM, Jan 11, 2013
Lucknow: The eight-month-old Akhilesh Yadav led Samajwadi Party (SP) government has been rapped by the Allahabad High Court for moving to release the accused of the 2006 serial bomb blasts in the temple city of Varanasi. A bench of justices RK Agarwal and RSR Maurya on Thursday observed: Today you are releasing them, tomorrow you may give them the Padma Bhushan. The court further said that whether those arrested were...
01:11 PM, Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court on Thursday ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to remove the Chairman and the CEO of the Noida Development Authority. The order was issued after a PIL seeking the removal of Chairman Rakesh Bahadur and CEO Sanjeev Charan was filed on allegations that the two were involved in a land allotment scam dating to 2006-07. The PIL was filed by Madhav Samaj Nirman Samiti, Allahabad....
05:01 PM, Nov 08, 2012
Lucknow: In a major relief for former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati, the Allahabad High Court has dismissed all the Public Interest Litigations (PIL) against her in the Taj Corridor case. Several PILs had been filed challenging the Special CBI court order that dropped the proceedings against her. The Lucknow bench of the court also dismissed the petitions against her cabinet colleague Naseemuddin Siddiqui. Passing...
10:56 AM, Nov 05, 2012
Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court on Thursday issued notice to a television news channel directing it to produce entire documents relating to the matter of Dr Zakir Hussain Memorial Trust run by Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid on the basis of which a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) was filed. The order was issued by the division bench comprising Justice Uma Nath Singh and Justice Satish Chandra during...
03:43 PM, Oct 18, 2012
New Delhi: The Allahabad High Court has taken up a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed against Robert Vadra over the allegations made by Arvind Kejriwal against Vadra and DLF. The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has asked the Central government to reply as to why Vadra should not be investigated. The PIL has been filed by social activist Nutan Thakur. The PIL asks the Prime Minister to order...
01:38 PM, Oct 11, 2012
