BATHINDA, April 5 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Saturday stayed proceedings being undertaken by a Bathinda court against five police personnel in a case of an alleged culpable homicide.

After hearing a petition by the accused Punjab police inspector Navpreet Singh and others, justice Sanjay Vashisht passed an interim order stating, "further proceedings by the judicial magistrate first class-cum (JMIC)- illaqa magistrate, Bathinda, shall be kept in abeyance, till pronouncement of the order in the petition by this court."

Justice Vashisht heard the arguments and reserved the order.

The five police personnel had filed a petition in the HC on March 17, seeking the quashing of criminal proceedings initiated by a Bathinda district ...