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.
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 […]
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a challenge to Haryana’s Model Online Transfer Policy, holding that a transfer is an incident of service, that an employee has no vested right to a posting of choice, and that a transfer policy is only a guideline and is not legally enforceable under Article 226. The Court found the extra marks for ‘couple cases’ where a spouse is posted in Haryana, Chandigarh or Delhi to have a reasonable nexus to the objective, and neither arbitrary nor discriminatory.
Hearing a batch of contempt petitions, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has come down hard on Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh for what it called ‘paper compliance’ with the Supreme Court’s directions in Arnesh Kumar and Satender Kumar Antil on avoiding unnecessary arrests. The Court rejected an illegible Chief Secretary affidavit, noted that Section 41A CrPC notices were being issued in the wrong format and even over WhatsApp, and summoned the SHOs of three police stations to appear with their actual records.
A BJP leader has moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking criminal contempt proceedings against Cockroach Janta Party co-convener Saurav Das over an X post that, the petition alleges, imputed political motives to a recent judgment and scandalised the Court. Chandigarh: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader has approached the Punjab and Haryana High […]
