Notably, the petitioner has also submitted that the division of jurisdiction between the two Benches of the Allahabad High Court needs a relook.
This, the petitioner argued, is because the Allahabad High Court Amalgamation Order 1948 (which merged the then Chief Court of Oudh with the High Court of Allahabad) has ceased to operate since the implementation of the Constitution in 1950.
“The vesting of jurisdiction between the both benches of this High Court (at Lucknow and Prayagraj) was through this amalgamation order and as no order by the President has been issued on this issue as like other high courts having benches … legally speaking, there is no valid order which divides the jurisdiction between both the benches. So the necessary directions to the concerned authorities needs to issued by this Hon’ble court on judicial side,” the petition stated.
However, this aspect has not been specifically pressed by the petitioner since another PIL (Asok Pandey and ors v. Union of Bharat and ors) filed on this issue in 2021 is already pending before the High Court.
Source: Barandbench
