Chandigarh, March 29 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday summoned Punjab chief secretary, and additional chief secretaries of finance and jails departments over 'failure' of the state government to take steps for procurement of equipment for upgrading security in jails.

The bench of justices Anupinder Singh Grewal and Deepak Manchanda said multiple affidavits have been filed on behalf of the state, but there was a lack of progress and hence, the court is 'dissatisfied'.

This court has been monitoring the progress in augmenting the security of jails for over a year and sufficient time was given for Punjab to put in place measures suggested by the senior officers of the state government to augment the security of jails, the ben...