New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- The Allahabad High Court today announced a roster change, placing Justice Prashant Kumar, recently at the centre of a judicial controversy, on a Division Bench headed by Justice Arindam Sinha.
The move comes in the wake of the Supreme Court's August 8 clarification modifying its August 4 order, which had directed the Chief Justice of the High Court to "immediately withdraw the present criminal determination" from Justice Kumar.
While the top court later deleted that direction, it did not remove a key paragraph relating to the administrative handling of the matter.
The August 4 ruling by a Bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and R Mahadevan had followed an appeal by M/S Shikhar Chemicals challenging a May 2025 decision by...