The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed a plea seeking transfer of a 2019 defamation case, holding that unproven allegations against a judge and counsel amount to an “attack on the majesty of law.” The Court imposed a Rs 50,000 penalty on the 89-year-old petitioner and directed the trial court to proceed expeditiously.
Former CJI DY Chandrachud firmly dismissed allegations of bias in assigning bail cases to Justice Bela Trivedi, calling them unsubstantiated. He stressed that facts prove otherwise, as case allocation in the Supreme Court is done randomly by computer.
