Source – hindustantimes.com The Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday admitted the appeal of Harmehtab Singh Rarewala, who was awarded life sentence in the Akansh Sen murder case by a district court in November 2019. Sen, a nephew of former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh’s wife Pratibha, was run over by a BMW car several
Source – hindustantimes.com The Punjab and Haryana high court has warned officials dealing with sanctioning of lawyers’ bills to clear the same by February 20 failing which they will be forced to attach their salaries. The direction was given by the bench of justice RN Raina, who was hearing a clutch of petitions, initially brought
Source – hindustantimes.com A Gurugram court has issued arrest warrants against Rakesh Babbar, one of the promoters of Appu Ghar, the controversial Gurugram amusement park, in a cheating case pertaining to siphoning of investors’ money. He is the son of former Delhi BJP MLA OP Babbar. Gurugram chief judicial magistrate (CJM) Narender Singh on December
Source – indianexpress.com THE PUNJAB government in a report submitted before the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday said that a fresh survey be carried out for a scientific demarcation of the catchment area around Sukhna Lake with the assistance of technical experts for proper adjudication of the issue, while asserting that it has
Source – indianexpress.com The Haryana Police has conceded in the Punjab and Haryana High Court that the contents of an FIR are false in an NDPS case in which the police personnel, in a CCTV footage, are allegedly seen raiding the house of a local, who was said to have been arrested during “chance patrolling”
Source – hindustantimes.com The Supreme Court (SC) has upheld life imprisonment awarded to a Chandigarh man by a trial court for strangling his wife to death and setting the body on fire in 2012. Vajinder Paul, a resident of Sector 20, and his paramour, Renu Bains, a resident of a Hoshiarpur village, were convicted for murdering
Source – indianexpress.com THE PUNJAB and Haryana High Court Monday observed that it has been found that though both Punjab and Haryana want Chandigarh as joint capital and are enjoying its benefits, they don’t want to contribute towards its development and conservation. The observation was made by the division bench of Chief Justice Ravi Shanker Jha and
Source – indianexpress.com The Haryana Congress Saturday accused the previous BJP government in state of turning a blind eye to illegal mining, leading to a “scam” of Rs 5,000 crore, and demanded a probe by a sitting Punjab and Haryana High Court judge. The BJP said these were “politically motivated allegations”. Citing a Comptroller and Auditor General
Source – indianexpress.com The Punjab and Haryana High Court has pulled up the Centre for denying the benefit of regularisation to some 13 employees of the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS Chandigarh) from their initial date of appointment and for making an overwriting in the communication regarding the regularisation. The high court has observed that central
Source – hindustantimes.com Chandigarh The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday stayed the uprooting and cutting of trees for the Tribune flyover project. The HC bench of chief justice RS Jha and justice Rajiv Sharma also directed the Chandigarh administration and governments of Punjab and Haryana to constitute a committee under the chairmanship of
