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The Court noted that the outgoing General Secretary and President expressed their reservation regarding reservation of posts for women higher than Treasurer, but they could not put forth any such reasoning for such an assertion.
“The Tribunal appears to have lost sight that a fact can be proved, while the negative cannot. It was up to the department to demonstrate communication.”
The Court remarked that the daughters, despite being major, educated and legally competent women, were deprived of their liberty for a prolonged period, solely because they exercised their constitutionally protected freedom of conscience and chose to profess a religion different from that professed by their family.
The Court remarked that recently there had been instances where petitioners-in-person have not followed the decorum of the Court and acted in a hasty and unruly manner. They used the video recordings of court proceedings to malign the image of the courts.
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The Court noted that the presence of the appellant at the time of occurrence at the scene of crime has not been proved beyond reasonable doubt and no active role has been assigned to him and the chain of the evidence is not consistent only with the hypothesis of the guilt of the accused.
The Court noted that the Mandir Secretary admitted that no documentary proof of the boy’s age was produced before marriage.
The Allahabad High Court quashed FIR under the POCSO Act, holding that continuation of the criminal proceedings would serve no fruitful purpose in the peculiar facts of the case.
A woman cleared the written exam for Forest Guard and Wildlife Guard recruitment, nine months pregnant at the time, was told there was no rule allowing her physical test to be postponed. The Allahabad High Court disagreed, holding that no woman should have to choose between motherhood and a job.
The Court observed that the relief sought by the petitioner seems to be in disguise as it tries to achieve approval indirectly, which it has failed to achieve directly.
The Allahabad High Court held that the absence of specific casteist words in the FIR did not justify discharge where the Facebook post recovered during investigation and witness statements disclosed a prima facie case against the accused.
The Court noted that the wife had herself obtained custody of the minor daughter on the specific assertion that she was financially capable of maintaining and taking proper care of her.
The High Court stated that the record revealed a rather disquieting state of affairs. For years, the proceedings remained dormant without any meaningful progress, reducing the criminal trial to a mere formality.
The Court noted that the doctor’s clinic was admittedly not registered with the Chief Medical Officer’s office, which is a sine qua non for practicing modern medicine and treating patients.
The Court remarked that it was one of those cases where the authority instead of carrying out its own obligations, kept on tightening the screw upon the contractor to finish the work within the extended timeline.
The Court held that the Shariat Law providing for puberty as the competent age under the law, permissible for a girl to marry or be married, violates the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act and the POCSO Act.
The Allahabad High Court clarified that the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991 does not curtail the State’s power to acquire religious properties for a public purpose, including road widening and infrastructure development.
The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 does not create a special forum for deciding title disputes or declaring conveyance deeds void merely because the dispute involves a senior citizen. The Court reiterated that property disputes falling outside the limited scope of Section 23 must be adjudicated before the competent civil court.
The Court noted that the petitioner’s candidature was rejected solely on the ground that she did not submit the hard copy of the application form and accordingly permitted her to provisionally appear in the Mains Examination, subject to further orders to be passed in the present writ petition.
In the present case, the Allahabad High Court examined a challenge to a murder conviction, focusing on how much weight should be given to witness statements recorded at different stages of the trial, including those made before the accused was summoned.