Chandigarh, June 4 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court is learnt to have recommended compulsory retirement of a district and sessions judge, Tejwinder Singh, a Punjab cadre officer, who conducted a trial in the gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old Kathua girl.

The full court of the high court, which met last week before the commencement of the summer holidays, took the decision in the meeting chaired by chief justice Sheel Nagu after an internal probe indicted the judge in a case of allegedly 'accepting favours and misconduct', multiple sources confirmed.

It is learnt an internal probe was initiated in 2020 after complaints of accepting 'favours from litigants' and allegations of 'lavish expenses' on the construction of a house. Up...