Allahabad High Court
High court of Uttar Pradesh, seated at Prayagraj with a bench at LucknowProfile
The Allahabad High Court, officially the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, is the high court for the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It sits at Prayagraj, the city long known as Allahabad, and has a permanent bench at Lucknow, the state capital.
The court was established on 17 March 1866 at Agra, which makes it one of the oldest high courts in India. Until Uttarakhand was created in 2000, its jurisdiction also covered that region. Today it hears appeals and petitions from across Uttar Pradesh.
Its sanctioned strength is 160 judges, the highest of any high court in the country, according to Wikipedia. Residents of western Uttar Pradesh have long asked for a bench of their own at Meerut, and about 54 per cent of the court’s cases are said to come from that region.
The court appears in Nation in Shorts coverage of Uttar Pradesh judicial matters, including a recent Supreme Court ruling on a state judicial officer’s annual confidential report remark.
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