Chandigarh, July 22 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has stayed the summoning order to singer Amninderpal Singh, alias Ammy Virk, in a copyright case by a Mohali court.

The high court bench of justice Manisha Batra acted on a plea from the singer, who had sought quashing of February 14 order of Judicial Magistrate (1st Class), SAS Nagar, in which the singer was summoned to face trial for commission of offence punishable under Section 63 of the Copyright Act, 1957.

It was argued that before issuance of process against the petitioners, evidence of the complainant was required to be produced on record, which was not done in the case in hand. Criminal law could not be set in motion only on the basis of allegations in the complaint, his ...