JUSTICE JAYANT BANERJI

Justice Jayant Banerji was born on 17th January, 1965. Following his passion towards law, he graduated from CMP Degree College of Allahabad University in the year 1967. He got enrolled himself has an advocate on 8th January, 1989. He began his practice in civil law at Allahabad High Court. Tracing his exceptional work performance, he was appointed as additional Judge on September 22nd, 2017.  He was the sitting bench in Jameer Quraishi vs. The State of U.P, where it was held that against the claimant claiming offences under the terms of the Cow Slaughters Act, an F.I.R dated 19.10.2019 was lodged. The point put out by the learned lawyer for the claimant is that the claimant is an innocent party who was wrongly involved in the case. Furthermore, it is argued that he does not have a criminal past. Learned counsel have argued that, by order of 7.1.2020 in Criminal Misc, the co-accused in the Rizwan @ Patra case has already been extended on bail by this Court, in 2020 Bail Application No. 613. Learned A.G.A., however, opposed the bail prayer and claimed that a substantial quantity of around 110 kg of beef was seized from the applicant's custody, but did not refute the fact that the applicant had no prior criminal records. It is a suitable argument for bail, as given in the facts and circumstances. This application for bail is permitted. Let the petitioner- Jameer Quraishi @ Chhidda s/o Chhotey be released under Section 3/5/8 of the U.P. on bail in case of crime no. 450 of 2019. Prevention of the Cow Slaughter Act, P.S. Milak, Rampur District, to the satisfaction of the court, on his provision of a personal bond with two assurances each of the same amount. He also advocated recently in the Allahabad High Court imposing a cost of Rs. 5000 on an executive engineer who was required to be present before the High Court in person, the engineer appeared before the High Court in a pink coloured half sleeves shirt and jeans. Allahabad HC Bench, consisting of Justice Amit Sthalekar and Justice Jayant Banerji, questioned if this was a common dress code in the Executive Engineer's office or if it was an appropriate dress code in the State Government's offices and whether the officers could walk in their jeans in their offices. "Bench further claimed that," This is surely not a dress code required when appearing before the Court for a Class-I officer, and we expect the officer to know what dress code must be worn when appearing before the High Court. Thus, the Bench continued to levy a personal expense of Rs. 5,000/- on the officer concerned and then transfer it to the Legal Aid Facilities of the High Court.

Following his exceptional career path, he took an oath as the permanent Judge of the Allahabad High Court on 6th September, 2019. Currently, he is serving at one of the prestigious designations of the country. Following his career in advocacy, the date of his retirement is scheduled on 16th January, 2027.