A court in Allahabad is going to pronounce its order on a man convicted of killing his victims and indulging in cannibalism. The convict Raja Kalander alias Ram Niranjan (50) has been found guilty of killing a journalist Dhirendra Singh and several others. ...
04:05 PM, Nov 30, 2012
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
Allahabad: The ashes of Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray were on Thursday immersed in the holy Sangam in Allahabad. Thackeray's ashes were brought to the city by Shiv Sena leaders from Maharashtra, who were joined by the party's local unit members. However, no immediate family members of the Sena leader were present. Before being immersed in the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati, the ashes were kept at a...
05:34 PM, Nov 22, 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
Lucknow/New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is expected to file its closure report in the YS Sachan death case in the Allahabad High Court on Friday. Sources say that the CBI has called it a case of suicide based on the forensic report. Sachan, the former deputy Chief Medical Officer of Lucknow, was found dead in a jail toilet last year. He was accused of involvement in the...
11:36 AM, Sep 28, 2012
Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday directed the Akhilesh Yadav government to spell out its stand on banning gutka (tobacco pan masala) in Uttar Pradesh within two weeks, and warned if it failed to act, the court would itself slap a ban. The directive came from a bench of Justices Amar Sharan and Anurag Kumar while hearing a petition by the Uttar Pradesh chapter of the Indian Dental Association,...
03:20 AM, Sep 19, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has quashed the Allahabad High Court order restraining media from reporting troop movements during the tenure of former Army Chief General VK Singh. The Allahabad High Court had 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...
11:55 AM, Sep 14, 2012
New Delhi: A lawyer on Monday told the Supreme Court that a 2011 rape and wrongful confinement case against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Allahabad High Court was filed at the instance of Akhilesh Yadav, the current Uttar Pradesh chief minister. An apex court bench of Justice BS Chauhan and Justice Swatanter Kumar was told this by counsel Kamini Jaiswal in the course of the hearing of a petition by...
09:05 PM, Sep 10, 2012
Lucknow: Caught on camera distributing money to policemen inside Allahabad's Naini Jail, Samajwadi Party MLA Vijay Mishra now claims he was repaying a loan. Controversial ruling SP MLA Vijay Mishra said that the money which his daughter gave to policemen after his release on bail was actually a loan taken from them. The minister, who came on the public dais after almost three years to attend Ashirwad rally, said that...
09:11 AM, Aug 24, 2012
New Delhi: A group of policemen have been caught on camera accepting money from Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA Vijay Mishra in Allahabad. The incident took place at Naini Jail when Mishra was being released on bail. The visuals show not just Mishra but also his daughter offering what they called 'tips' to the policemen. The SP MLA from Gyanpur was in jail for attacking a former BSP Minister in 2010....
10:06 AM, Aug 23, 2012
Allahabad/Lucknow: Curfew was on Friday clamped in an Allahabad locality as a precautionary measure while stray incidents took place in Lucknow during a street protest against the ongoing ethnic strife in Assam. "The curfew was imposed in Kotwali police station area from 7 pm and will remain in force till midnight when further decision will be taken after reviewing the situation," Additional District Magistrate (City), D P Giri said. Trouble...
10:24 PM, Aug 17, 2012
Allahabad: After Haryana, comes another shelter shocker, this time from Uttar Pradesh. And again like the last time, it is the government-run shelters that are in the net. While four minor girls were allegedly abused in Allahabad, six went missing from Ghaziabad, many fearing that they may have been forced into the flesh trade. On April 5, 2012, a peon working at the Rajkiya Bal Grih in Allahabad, allegedly sexually...
01:58 PM, Jun 19, 2012
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
Allahabad: An explosion took place at a slum cluster in Allahabad on Wednesday afternoon, killing at least five people and injuring over 15 others. Around six people are said to be seriously injured in the blast which took place in the Kareli slums. According to reports, most of the deceased are children. An eyewitness said that several children were playing near a garbage dump when the blast took place. He...
04:49 PM, May 23, 2012
