Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench Announces New Constitution of Benches from 1 July 2026

The High Court of Judicature at Allahabad has issued a new Constitution of Benches for the Lucknow Bench, which will come into force from 1 July 2026. The new roster reorganizes the jurisdiction of Division Benches and Single Judge Benches for civil and criminal matters and determines the allocation of fresh and pending cases. The notification has been issued by order of the Hon'ble Chief Justice on 26 June 2026.

Major Highlights

Division Benches – Civil Matters

DB-2 (Court No. 1)

Hon'ble Justice Rajan Roy and Hon'ble Justice Manjive Shukla

Will hear:

1. Public Interest Litigations (Civil)
2. Special Appeals
3. Environmental Matters
4. Land Acquisition Writs (from 2021)
5. All Civil Matters not specifically assigned elsewhere.

DB-3 (Court No. 3)

Hon'ble Justice Shekhar B. Saraf and Hon'ble Justice Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary

Jurisdiction includes:

1. Miscellaneous Writs (2023 onwards)
2. Tax Writs
3. Article 228 matters
4. Company Appeals
5. Commercial Appellate Division matters
6. Street Vendor/Hawker disputes.

DB-7 (Court No. 5)

Hon'ble Justice Alok Mathur and Hon'ble Justice Amitabh Kumar Rai

Will hear:

1. Family Court Appeals
2. Service Writs
3. Local Bodies & Development Authority matters
4. Cooperative Society matters
5. Miscellaneous Writs up to 2022
6. Land Acquisition Writs up to 2020.

Division Benches – Criminal Matters

DB-4 (Court No. 9)

Hon'ble Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan and Hon'ble Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra

Jurisdiction:

1. Capital Sentence Cases
2. Criminal PILs
3. Contempt Appeals
4. Criminal Appeals from 2011 onwards
5. Criminal cases relating to MPs/MLAs/MLCs
6. Criminal Writs of 2024
7. Acid Attack matters.

DB-5 (Court No. 10)

Hon'ble Justice Rajnish Kumar and Hon'ble Justice Babita Rani

Will hear:

1. Habeas Corpus
2. Criminal Writs from 1 January 2025
3. Rape & Sexual Offence Appeals
4. Criminal Appeals (2006–2010).

DB-6 (Court No. 11)

Hon'ble Justice Abdul Moin and Hon'ble Justice Pramod Kumar Srivastava

Jurisdiction includes:

1. Leave to Appeal
2. Other Criminal Matters
3. Criminal Appeals up to 2005
4. Criminal Writs up to 2023.

Important Single Judge Civil Benches

1. Justice Sangeeta Chandra – Transferred Matters.
2. Justice Irshad Ali – Civil Writs up to 2020 and Service Writs up to 2015.
3. Justice Pankaj Bhatia – Service Writs (other than Government Service) from 2016.
4. Justice Rajeev Singh – Government Service Writs from 2016.
5. Justice Jaspreet Singh – Tax Matters, Company Matters, Arbitration, Civil Writs from 2021.
6. Justice Karunesh Singh Pawar – Education, Society, Consolidation, Board of Revenue, Revenue Code and U.P.Z.A. & L.R. matters.
7. Justice Syed Qamar Hasan Rizvi – RERA Appeals, Stamp Act matters and residual Civil Jurisdiction.
8. Justice Prashant Kumar – First Appeals, FAFOs and Second Appeals from 2016 onwards.

Important Single Judge Criminal Benches

1. Justice Manish Kumar – Major Bail and Major Anticipatory Bail Applications.
2. Justice Rajeev Bharti – Minor Bail and Minor Anticipatory Bail Applications.
3. Justice Shree Prakash Singh – Section 482 CrPC / Sections 528–529 BNSS petitions (other than complaint cases).
4. Justice Brij Raj Singh – Section 482 CrPC / Sections 528–529 BNSS petitions arising out of complaint cases.
5. Justice Zafeer Ahmad – Criminal Revisions and Criminal Appeals from 2021 onwards.
6. Justice Subhash Vidyarthi – ED, CBI, MP/MLA matters, Leave to Appeal and other criminal matters.
7. Justice Manish Mathur – SC/ST Act Appeals against bail orders and Appeals under Section 372 CrPC.

Key Administrative Directions

The notification also provides that:

1. The 16.12.2013 administrative order regarding part-heard and tied-up matters will continue.
2. Mentioning of fresh matters shall be made before the Bench having jurisdiction under the new roster.
3. Priority will be given to:
4. Supreme Court expedited matters.
5. Capital sentence cases.
6. Acid attack cases.
7. Old criminal appeals.
8. Cases where the accused has undergone more than half of the sentence or has remained in custody for over seven years.
9. Murder, rape, dacoity and kidnapping cases.
10. Successful mediation matters.
11. Juvenile Justice revisions and Habeas Corpus petitions.

https://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/event/event_26037_26-06-2026.pdf