Justice Vinod Diwakar Archives

Advocates with criminal antecedents a potential threat to rule of law: Allahabad High Court seeks details of criminal cases pending against UP Advocates

“It has come to the Court’s notice that in many districts, advocates who possess criminal backgrounds and are facing serious criminal charges are occupying positions of authority within the respective District Bar Associations.”

Case Briefs High Courts

“Regrettable that Trial Court failed to conduct any effective proceedings”: Allahabad HC grants relief to woman in dowry case pending since 2004

“This prolonged and unexplained inaction by the Trial Court constitutes not only a denial of timely justice, but also a serious erosion of the rule of law and a violation of the wife’s fundamental right to a fair and expeditious trial.”

Case Briefs High Courts

“Gender-sensitive, emotionally intelligent, & child-centered judicial approach required in custody of minor girls”: Allahabad HC grants minor daughter’s custody to mother

“The principle that the father is the natural guardian of the minor child-boy or unmarried girl, and after him, the mother is primarily derived from section 6 of the Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956, though seminal at its time. Now it smacks patriarchal bias, therefore, become obsolete in the progressive realities of 21st- century in India”