CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana high court has upheld the conviction of seven villagers from Punjab’s Nawanshahr for attempting to swindle land by forging the will of a soldier who vanished during World War 2, reports Ajay Sura.Harbans Singh, a native of Sheikhupur Bagh village, disappeared after 1943, prompting his wife Joginder Kaur to have him…
CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana HC overturned the compensation awarded to a couple who conceived a child after a failed vasectomy, reports Ajay Sura. HC said this was “not due to medical negligence” but because the couple did not exercise “due care and caution”. While passing the order, judge Nidhi Gupta referred to a SC verdict,…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court has said that the court should refrain from ordering CBI inquiry in a routine manner and it should direct probe by the central agency only when it comes to a prima facie conclusion that investigation cannot be done properly and fairly by state police.It further said that the court should exercise…
CHANDIGARH: If a soldier dies in an accident in non-duty hours and there was no negligence on his part, he will be deemed to be on duty, and his family will be entitled to special family pension, the Punjab and Haryana high court has ruled.“We find that where an accident has occurred, resulting in death…
CHANDIGARH: A special CBI court here acquitted former Punjab and Haryana high court judge Nirmal Yadav and three others on Saturday in the 17-year-old high-profile cash-at-judge’s-door case.Yadav, sitting in her car in the parking of the court complex due to a fractured leg, said she had full faith in the judiciary as the verdict came….
Supreme Court has acquitted a Haryana woman in a 23-year-old murder case, ruling that mere suspicion cannot be the basis for conviction. The top court overturned the decisions of both the trial court in Jind and Punjab and Haryana high court, which had found her guilty. A division bench comprising Justice MM Sundresh and Justice…
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana high court has observed that recovery of tainted currency notes in bribery cases does not automatically demonstrate that the accused is engaged in criminal conduct. It was of the view that “demand for a bribe is the foundation of the offence because it demonstrates the corrupt intent of the accused”.“Without…
NEW DELHI: Though admitting that Punjab and Haryana HC committed an “egregious error” by reversing the acquittal order of three persons by invoking its revisional jurisdiction, not allowed as per law, and that too without granting them a hearing, SC on Wednesday blamed Haryana govt for the mistake and said the public prosecutor should have…
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana high court made it clear that it cannot issue any directive compelling the central govt to enact a law mandating all women, without exception, to observe “Karva Chauth” rituals or to penalise those who fail to do so. While dismissing a plea that sought directions to declare Karva Chauth be…
CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana HC has ruled that when a dispute is essentially personal in nature and a genuine compromise has been reached, the high court may intervene to quash criminal proceedings, recognising that continuing these would be unproductive and unjust.HC passed these orders while quashing an FIR registered against a person declared a proclaimed…
