The Allahabad High Court on Friday granted interim protection from arrest to Alt News co-founder and fact-checker Mohammed Zubair till January 6, in connection with an FIR lodged against him over his post on ‘X’ (formerly Twitter) regarding an alleged inflammatory speech delivered by controversial priest Yati Narsinghanand. The Bench of Justice Siddhartha Varma and…
The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to two more convicts in a case related to the killing of 42 people belonging to a minority community in Hashimpura region of Uttar Pradesh in 1987. The Bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Augustine George Masih noted that the convicts, including an 82-year-old, were entitled…
The Allahabad High Court has quashed the criminal proceedings going on in the court of CJM Mirzapur against SP candidate former minister Kailash Chaurasia and others in the 2017 Sadar Mirzapur assembly elections, terming the process illegal. A Single Bench of Justice Raj Beer Singh passed this order while hearing an application filed by Kailash Chaurasiya and…
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently heard an original application filed suo motu, regarding encroachment and pollution of Baghel Talab, a large water body stretching over 42 km in Uttar Pradesh. The Principal Bench comprising Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava, Judicial Member Justice Sudhir Agarwal and Expert Member Dr A Senthil Vel considered a joint committee…
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) in New Delhi heard a suo motu application relating to the eruption of a major fire at the Bhagtanwala garbage dump. The application sought action against the Municipal Corporation, Amritsar, and other respondents for their alleged failure to comply with environmental norms. During the hearing, the Principal Bench Comprising Judicial…
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) heard an original application filed suo motu, regarding pollution in Sindh Nallah in Ganderbal, Kashmir. The Principal Bench comprising Chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava, Judicial Member Justice Sudhir Agarwal and Expert Member Dr A Senthil Vel examined the issue based on a report filed by the Jammu and Kashmir Pollution Control…
The Allahabad High Court has rejected the bail application of gang leader MLA Abbas Ansari in the Gangster Act case registered in Chitrakoot, Karvi. A Single Bench of Justice Samit Gopal passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Abbas Ansari. The bail application under Section 483 Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita,…
The Allahabad High Court has rejected the second bail plea of Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA Ramakant Yadav in a spurious liquor case. A Single Bench of Justice Samit Gopal passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Ramakant Yadav. This is the second bail application of the applicant. The first bail…
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to enforce complete bans on firecrackers, mirroring the ban already established in Delhi. Noting the ban will effective only when other National Capital Region states have like measures in place, the bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Augustine George Masih, which is hearing…
The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Uttar Pradesh government to take all precautionary measures and ensure that no hate speeches were delivered during the ‘Dharam Sansad,’ being organised between December 17 to 21 in Ghaziabad by controversial priest Yati Narasinghanand. The Bench of Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar further…