Tag: Allahabad High Court

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 30, 2019)

source: downtoearth.org.in Report on Ganga pollution The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on September 27, 2019 directed the chief secretary of Uttar Pradesh to ensure the supply of drinking water to the residents of Rania, Kanpur Dehat and Rakhi Mandi, Kanpur Nagar, where there has been a chromium dump since 1976, and has not been shifted despite repeated orders.

Gorakhpur deaths: Inquiry into Dr Kafeel Khan is still on, says Uttar Pradesh government

Source: scroll.in The Uttar Pradesh government has said the inquiry into Dr Kafeel Khan, a former paediatrician at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College and Hospital in Gorakhpur, where 63 children died in 2017 because of lack of oxygen, is still on, The Indian Express reported on Sunday. The government’s statement came on Saturday, hours after Khan asked

HC’s decision on OBCs ruffles feathers among UP parties

Source: deccanherald.com With the halting of the UP government’s decision to put 17 Other Backward Castes (OBC) in the Scheduled Castes (SC) list, Allahabad High Court on Monday upset many politicos who have always resorted to such quota calculus to further their existing vote banks or create new vote banks. Mayawati alleged politics over the issue as the Supreme Court said the state

Allahabad HC strikes down Yogi’s move to shift 17 OBCs to SC list

Source: nationalheraldindia.com In a major setback to the Yogi Adityanath government, the Allahabad High Court on Monday stayed its decision to include 17 Other Backward Castes (OBC) in the Scheduled Castes (SC) list. The court’s decision came on a petition filed by social activist Gorakh Prasad. On June 24, the state government had directed District

GDA proposes allowing commercial activities in city’s residential areas

Source: hindustantimes.com The Ghaziabad Development Authority (GDA) is preparing a proposal for allowing a limited commercial activities on one floor of multi-storey residential buildings. The officials said zoning regulations of the Bareilly Development Authority provides such a feature and the state officials have asked the GDA to prepare a proposal along the same lines. According

On bail, Bulandshahr violence accused gets garlanded, hugged, photographed

Source: hindustantimes.com One of the accused in the Syana violence of December last year, in which a police inspector was killed, received a hero’s welcome on his release from the Bulandshahr district jail on Saturday evening, according to a video circulated on social media. In all, six accused were released after the Allahabad high court granted

No more messages, orders Allahabad high court judge spammed on Janmashtami

Sourcce: hindustantimes.com His phone pinging with Janmashtami greetings all day, the Allahabad High Court Chief Justice Govind Mathur on Friday ordered judicial officers in Uttar Pradesh to stop sending him such messages. The instruction was conveyed by the high court’s registrar general to the judges in an urgent communication that made Chief Justice Govind Mathur’s