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 interfering with the operations of the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) and accused BBMB and Haryana of "stating a bunch of lies".

Exchanges between the two sides - Punjab on one and the BBMB, Haryana and the Union government on the other --- prompted the high court chief justice to caution the neighbouring states against treating each other as enemy nations.

"We are doing this to our enemy country. Let us not do this within our states," said chief justice Sheel Nagu, who closed the hearing for final orders. A judgment was yet to be issued at ...