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Allahabad High Court issues notice on PIL seeking renaming to 'High Court of Uttar Pradesh' [Read Order]

By Saket Sourav      16 September, 2024 12:13 PM      0 Comments
Allahabad High Court issues notice on PIL seeking renaming to High Court of Uttar Pradesh

Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court has issued an order seeking responses from the Central Government and the High Court itself regarding a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that challenges the current name of the court and proposes renaming it as the “High Court of Uttar Pradesh” in official documents.

A Division Bench comprising Justices Rajan Roy and Om Prakash Shukla heard the PIL filed by Deepanker Kumar against the Union of Bharat, represented through the Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice, New Delhi, and another respondent.

The court noted that the petition also challenges the validity of the Amalgamation Order 1948, which is related to the renaming issue.

Keeping the question of the petition’s maintainability open, the court stated: “Keeping the question of maintainability of the petition and the objections to the reliefs claimed in view of the decision of a Coordinate Bench in PIL Civil No. 14171 of 2020 open for consideration on the next date, and also leaving those objections to be raised at that time, let the counter affidavit be filed by the opposite parties within four weeks as in the connected petition, the vires of the Amalgamation Order 1948 is also under challenge.”

The court has granted the respondents four weeks to file their counter-affidavits. The petitioner has been given two weeks to file a rejoinder affidavit, if any.

In closing, the court ordered: “Rejoinder affidavit, if any, be filed within two weeks. List thereafter.”

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