Chandigarh, March 6 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the Punjab director general of police (DGP) to file details of cases pending investigation in the state for the past three years.

The development comes in the wake of revelations that the investigation in 1,338 FIRs is pending for the last more than three years and thousands of accused have not been arrested in Amritsar district alone.

The high court bench of justice NS Shekhawat also sought a list of all IPS officers who remained posted as SSPs and DCPs in Amritsar since 2013, so that "appropriate disciplinary / legal action may be taken against all of them".

"There has been no supervision at all by SSPs concerned and senior officers in district Amritsar," the bench...