Rihan Ali vs State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. and 2 Others — Allahabad HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

Rihan Ali vs State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. and 2 Others — Allahabad HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

Interim order only (final disposal pending): no coercive action against the revisionist for recovery of arrears of amount until the next listing (19.12.2025), conditional on his continuing to pay maintenance of Rs. 17,000/- to opposite party No. 2 during pendency of the revision; matter placed before the Mediation and Conciliation Centre with both parties to appear on 16.10.2025; on breach of the payment condition, the interim order stands deemed vacated.

Issue for consideration

Whether the parties may settle the dispute amicably through mediation pending disposal of the criminal revision. +1 more

Court's answer

Both parties declared readiness to settle the dispute amicably; the matter was ordered to be placed before the Mediation and Conciliation Centre of the Court on 16.10.2025, with both parties required to appear before the Centre on that date.

Ratio / Principle

Interim protection: till the next date of listing, no coercive action shall be taken against the revisionist in relation to recovery of arrears of amount, provided he continues to pay the maintenance amount of Rs. 17,000/- to opposite party No. 2 during pendency of the instant revision.

Key takeaways

Continued payment of the maintenance amount i.e. Rs. 17,000/- to opposite party No. 2 during pendency of the instant revision is the express condition attached to the interim protection.ratio¶19
On violation of the aforesaid condition, the interim order granted by the Court shall be deemed to be vacated.ratio¶20
The case is to be put up/listed before the Court on 19.12.2025 alongwith the report of the Mediation and Conciliation Centre, showing the name of Sri Sachin Verma, Advocate as counsel for opposite party No. 2.

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Interim order (Saurabh Lavania, J.) dated October 13, 2025 in Criminal Revision No. 1118 of 2025, High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench, arising in a maintenance matter: revisionist Rihan Ali and opposite party No. 2 Smt. Ujma Bano appeared before the Court and undertook to settle the dispute amicably through mediation; consistent with the Court's earlier order dated 26.09.2025, a draft of Rs. 3,00,000/- was provided to opposite party no. 2. The matter was placed before the Mediation and Conciliation Centre for 16.10.2025, and the case is to be put up again on 19.12.2025 alongwith the Centre's report. Until the next date of listing, no coercive action shall be taken against the revisionist in relation to recovery of arrears of amount so long as he continues to pay the maintenance amount of Rs. 17,000/- to opposite party No. 2 during pendency of the revision; in case of violation, the interim order granted by the Court shall be deemed to be vacated. Vakalatnama of Sri Sachin Verma (counsel for opposite party no. 2) was taken on record; Sri Anand Dubey, Advocate, appears for the revisionist.

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW

CRIMINAL REVISION No. - 1118 of 2025

Rihan Ali

.....Revisionist(s)

Versus

State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And 2 Others .....Opposite Party(s)

Counsel for Revisionist(s)	: Anand Dubey
Counsel for Opposite Party(s)	: G.A.

Court No. - 13

HON'BLE SAURABH LAVANIA, J.

Sri Sachin Verma, learned Advocates has filed Vakalatnama on behalf of opposite party no.2, which is taken on record.

In terms of this Court's order dated 26.09.2025, Rihan Ali-revisionist and opposite party No.2- Smt. Ujma Bano are present before this Court, who have been duly identified by their respective counsel namely Sri Anand Dubey, Advocate appearing for the revisionist and Sri Sachin Verma, learned Counsel for opposite party No. 2.

Both the parties present before this Court are ready to settle the dispute amicably by way of mediation.

In terms of earlier order of this Court dated 26.09.2025, a draft of Rs. 3,00,000/- has been provided to opposite party no.2, before this Court.

In view of above, let the instant matter be placed before the Mediation and Conciliation Centre of this Court on 16.10.2025. Both the parties shall appear before Mediation and Conciliation Center of this Court on the said date.

List/put up this case before this Court on 19.12.2025 alongwith the report of Mediation and Conciliation Center of this Court showing the names of Sri Sachin Verma, Advocate as counsel for the opposite party

CRLR No. 1118 of 2025

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No. 2.

Till the next date of listing, no coercive action shall be taken against the revisionist in relation to recovery of arrears of amount, if the revisionist continues to pay the amount of maintenance i.e. Rs. 17,000/- to the opposite party No. 2 during pendency of the instant revision.

In case of violation of aforesaid, the interim order granted by this Court shall be deemed to be vacated.

(Saurabh Lavania,J.)

October 13, 2025

Jyoti/-

Digitally signed by :- JYOTI RAJWANI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench