Chandigarh, Nov. 8 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday verbally directed UT administration's senior standing counsel to look into why there was a delay in handing over allotted houses to its judges.

During the hearing of a matter related to the Union territory, the bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry sought to know from UT's senior standing counsel Amit Jhanji whether there was a delay in sprucing up the allotted houses due to a spending limit of Rs.1 crore on allotment of tenders for different works imposed by the Union ministry of home affairs (MHA).

Though the exact number of houses, etc., was not discussed, it is reliably learnt that houses in question are of some judges transferred from other high ...