The High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench, has dismissed a batch of two special appeals, holding that a litigant cannot be permitted to repeatedly agitate issues that have already been conclusively decided by the Supreme Court and subsequently affirmed in multiple rounds of litigation.

A Division Bench of Chief Justice Arun Bhansali and Justice Jaspreet Singh upheld a learned Single Judge’s order, invoking the principles of constructive res-judicata and the “Henderson Principle” to bar the appellant from raising claims in new writ petitions that “could and ought to have been raised” in previous proceedings.

The Court dismissed Special Appeal No. 496 of 2023 and Special Appeal Defective No. 215 of 2025, which were filed by appellant Amar Nath Dwivedi against a common judg

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