Significant Judgments Of Allahabad High Court In 2020

Same-sex couples, Inter-faith marriages & Right to choose partner 1. "Right To Choose A Partner Of Choice A Fundamental Right": Allahabad High Court Says The Judgments Which Held "Conversion For The Purpose Of Marriage Only" Not Good Law A Bench of Justice Pankaj Naqvi and Justice Vivek Agarwal specifically observed that "Right to live with a person of his/her choice irrespective of religion professed by them, is intrinsic to right to life and personal liberty." Allahabad HC Grants Anticipatory Bail To 'The Wire' Editor Siddharth Varadarajan, Accused Of Making Objectionable Remarks Against UP CM A Single Bench of Justice Chandra Dhari Singh allowed the anticipatory bail application filed by Founding-Editor of the Wire, Siddharth Varadarajan, while stating, "The court Right to life and personal liberty are one of the important fundamental rights guaranteed by the constitution and therefore, no person should be confined or detained in any manner unless he has been held guilty." Mass Disaster/Pandemic May Severely Obstruct Our Life But Doors Of Courts Must Remain Open For Protection Of Article 21: Allahabad High Court While observing that "non-performance of duty owing to holidays is a serious dereliction of duty on the part of the Session Judges/magistrates", a Bench of Justice Attau Rahman Masoodi rapped the Magistrates/Session Judges from the district Lucknow/Hardoi and the State for failure to perform its duty and rejecting the Petitioners' plea for default bail under Section 167 of CrPC. Filing Of Writ Petition Only For Directions To Create Awareness Regarding Certain Laws Is Not Proper: Allahabad High Court A Division Bench of Justice Pankaj Mithal and Justice Saurabh Lavania observed that the filing of Writ Petition, praying for directions to create awareness regarding certain laws is not proper and that "it appears that such petitions are filed only for the sake of popularity."