Chandigarh, April 9 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has framed charges under Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, against director general health services (DGHS), Haryana, Manish Bansal.

"...In fact the deliberate conduct and the obstructive behaviour of respondent being aimed at frustrating the real intent of the relief granted by the writ court, amounts to circumventing and manipulating the course of proceedings thereby resulting into its defiance so as to make the order ineffective," the bench of justice Harkesh Manuja said while framing the charges and posting the matter for further hearing on April 23. Bansal was present in the court when the order was passed on April 4.

He has been charged under Sections 10 (power of HC to initiate ...