Topic: Allahabad HC
Only 9,700 traced out of 1.08 lakh missing in UP: Allahabad HC registers PIL, flags ‘institutional indifference’
The Allahabad High Court has registered a public interest litigation (PIL) expressing strong dismay over the Uttar Pradesh government’s admission that between January 2024 and January 2026, approximately 1,08,300 missing person complaints were registered in the state, but action was taken by the police to trace the individuals in only 9,700 cases, Live Law reported.
Allahabad HC flags continued “bulldozer justice” despite Supreme Court guidelines
Expressing concern over the alleged manner in which executive powers are being exercised in Uttar Pradesh, the Allahabad High Court recently observed that punitive demolitions continue in the State despite the Supreme Court’s November 2024 judgment in the “Bulldozer Justice” case, Live Law reported.
Allahabad HC questions UP police’s shooting suspects in leg during encounters, calls them a “routine feature”
Taking cognisance of multiple cases in which suspects were allegedly shot in the leg during police encounters, the Allahabad High Court has observed that such incidents have “become a routine feature” in Uttar Pradesh and appear to be carried out to “please senior officers or to teach a lesson to the accused.”
Allahabad HC questions UP order shutting unrecognised madrasa, says non-recognition doesn’t mean closure
“The seal put on the madarsa will be opened within 24 hours of production of a certified copy of this order,” the Allahabad High Court ruled on January 16, 2026.
28 years behind bars, zero evidence: Allahabad HC acquits Muslim man in 1996 Ghaziabad bus blast case
Nearly three decades after he was thrown into prison for a blast that killed 18 people, the Allahabad High Court has acquitted Mohammad Ilyas in the 1996 Modinagar–Ghaziabad bus bombing, ruling that the State had failed to prove even the basic charges against him.
Allahabad HC grants relief to two Muslim men in ‘I Love Muhammad’ protest, begins hearing on police violence plea
The Allahabad High Court has granted major relief to two Muslim men in the Bareilly I Love Muhammad protest case, Nadeem Khan and Bablu Khan, by staying their arrest until the filing of the chargesheet.
