The Punjab and Haryana High Court has said the haste with which GMADA moved to demolish the farm stay of a PIL petitioner, soon after he filed the petition, cannot be brushed aside, as it handed the investigation of Enforcement Directorate material against senior officials to the CBI. Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court […]
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the CBI to register a criminal case and investigate allegations made by the Enforcement Directorate against the Officer on Special Duty to Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, and to report within two months. Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation […]
Justice Lapita Banerji of the Punjab and Haryana High Court has called for a status report from the District Judge, Sri Muktsar Sahib, explaining an anomaly in an August 19, 2026 order in execution proceedings against judgment debtors, including the recording of a High Court stay order that the award holder says was never passed, and has listed the civil revision on November 30, 2026.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has upheld the conviction of a Ludhiana woman for abducting and murdering her neighbour’s granddaughter, aged under three, by burying her alive, but commuted her death sentence to 30 years’ rigorous imprisonment without remission, holding that she cannot be said to be beyond reform.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that a petition under Section 528 BNSS against a Sessions Court’s revisional order operates within an extraordinarily constricted domain and can amount to a disguised second revision, dismissing a challenge to an order directing delivery of about 514 kanals of land in Kaithal to a samadh.
The State of Punjab has withdrawn its habeas corpus petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court over the Enforcement Directorate’s search at the GMADA headquarters, after the search ended and the officers the State alleged were illegally confined were set free. A court-appointed Warrant Officer had reported that the officers themselves said they were not illegally detained. The Court allowed the withdrawal with liberty to raise all issues before an appropriate forum.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a challenge to the demolition of structures raised on agricultural land within the Chandigarh Periphery ‘Control Area’, holding that a General Power of Attorney or similar document confers no title and cannot regularise unauthorised construction. Livelihood, the Court held, cannot be a licence to violate the periphery-control law. Only the unauthorised structures, not the land, are to be removed.
In an extraordinary late-night sitting conducted over WhatsApp, the Punjab and Haryana High Court appointed a warrant officer to visit the GMADA premises after the Punjab government alleged that the Enforcement Directorate had confined its top IAS officers during ongoing raids, moving a habeas corpus petition at 10 PM. Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High […]
