LUCKNOW, Feb. 9 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has strongly disapproved of a counsel's attempt to rely on a verse from the Ramcharitmanas to justify a nearly three-year delay in filing a writ petition, observing that literary and religious texts cannot be cited in court without understanding their context or relevance to the case.

Finding no procedural infirmity in the Information Commission's decision rejecting the recall application, the court held that there was no illegality in the order dated February 17, 2023. Accordingly, the high court dismissed the writ petition at the admission stage.

While hearing a challenge to an order of the Uttar Pradesh State Information Commission (SIC), Justice Subhash Vidyarthi recen...