Source: indianexpress.com THE PUNJAB and Haryana High Court said the protection of life and personal liberty stands on a much higher pedestal and the fundamental right under Article 21 of a couple must be protected regardless of solemnisation of an invalid or void marriage and even in absence of any marriage between them. The observation
Source: hindustantimes.com CHANDIGARH Justice Ravi Shankar Jha was on Sunday sworn in as new chief justice of Punjab and Haryana high court. Justice Jha, who was earlier the acting chief justice of the Madhya Pradesh high court, was sworn in as the 35th chief justice of the twin states’ high court by Punjab governor V
source: hindustantimes.com Following a petition (criminal miscellaneous) filed by a woman draftsman-cum-building inspector over the alleged inaction of the police department against a right to information (RTI) activist allegedly threatening and eve-teasing the inspector, the Punjab and Haryana high court, while disposing of the petition, directed the commissioner of police (CP) Rakesh Agrawal to take action
Source: hindustantimes.com Flouting the Supreme Court’s orders, a former Punjabi University registrar’s son continues to work as an assistant professor even after his MTech degree stands invalid. An assistant professor in the distance education department, Dilraj Singh, son of former Punjabi University registrar Manjit Singh, has failed to fulfil the requirements set by the Supreme
Source: tribuneindia.com The Mohali Administration will now give a public hearing to the owners of structures in the periphery of the Chandigarh Air Force Station that were identified illegal and earmarked for immediate demolition.Following the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court earlier this year, as many as 98 structures that had come up
Source: hindustantimes.com The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Haryana government to produce records of various offices allegedly being run from a school in Manesar. The high court bench of Justice BS Walia said that records of locations of anganwadi, panchayat ghar, public health centre and a post office being reportedly run on
Source: tribuneindia.com Just over a year after former minister Tikshan Sood was summoned by a Hoshiarpur court to face trial on a complaint alleging filing of a false affidavit under the provisions of the Representation of Peoples Act and the Indian Penal Code, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today allowed his petition for quashing
Source: hindustantimes.com Police can’t register an FIR against house owners for not verifying details of tenants, paying guests and domestic helps, the Punjab and Haryana high court has ruled. This year alone, as many as 400 cases have been registered against house owners in Chandigarh and Mohali for violating the magistrate’s orders on mandatory police
Source: theprint.in Chandigarh: Retired judge of Punjab and Haryana High Court Justice Ranjit Singh, who headed the one-man commission — set up to probe the infamous Bargari sacrilege case — has complained to chief justice of the High Court against a sitting judge for showing “undue haste” in hearing a complaint against deputy CM of Punjab Sukhbir Singh
Source: hindustantimes.com The Punjab and Haryana high court has stayed the removal of Emanual Nahar as Panjab University’s dean of student welfare (DSW), observing that the “tearing haste” in which the decision was taken indicated that vice-chancellor (V-C) Raj Kumar wanted his dissent against Nahar’s continuation “to prevail”. Following the order passed on Monday and
