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Hisar doctors booked under PNDT Act acquitted after 19 years

Chandigarh, May 16 -- Nineteen years after the criminal case was instituted, the Punjab and Haryana high court has acquitted two directors of a Hisar based diagnostic centre booked under the provision... Read More


NHAI projects: Land reclaimed by owners at three sites returned to highways authority, Punjab tells HC

Chandigarh, May 14 -- The Punjab government on Wednesday told the high court that three land parcels, which were acquired for National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) projects but reclaimed by the ... Read More


NHAI projects: Amid claims of owners taking back land, HC summons DCs of three Punjab districts

Chandigarh, May 14 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has summoned deputy commissioners of three districts, after it was apprised by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) that three land p... Read More


Water sharing row: Submit names of Punjab officers who halted water release: HC

Chandigarh, May 11 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has reiterated its May 6 order on the release of an additional 4,500 cusecs of water to Haryana and also sought names of officers from the Punja... Read More


Doing what we do to enemy: HC on Punjab-Haryana water tussle

Chandigarh, May 7 -- The Bhagwant Mann-led Punjab government on Tuesday told the Punjab and Haryana High Court that while state police were deployed at the Nangal dam for security, they are not interf... Read More


Inquire into missing records of rape case: HC

Chandigarh, May 7 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed district and sessions judge, Faridabad to inquire into reported incident of missing of documents in a rape case at the district cour... Read More


Can't infringe upon competent authority's right to prematurely retire an employee: Punjab & Haryana HC

Chandigarh, May 2 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has refused to interfere with the Punjab director general of police's (DGP) 2022 order of prematurely retiring an assistant sub-inspector, statin... Read More


FIR for evading court notices only if jurisdictional magistrate complains: HC

Chandigarh, May 1 -- A criminal case can be registered against a person evading court notices only on the complaint of a jurisdictional magistrate, the Punjab and Haryana high court has held. The hig... Read More


HC for SOP to deal with gangster culture

Chandigarh, April 26 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has called for a standard operating procedure (SOP) to deal with complaints against gangsters. "A firm hand, with stringent law enforcement a... Read More