Chandigarh, July 18 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday reiterated that the special investigation team (SIT) set up by the high court should examine the role of senior officers and ensure that lower level officials are not made scapegoats in the Lawrence Bishnoi interview controversy.

"It is difficult to believe that the interview could have taken place without involvement of senior officers especially when the place of interview could be established only after the intervention of this court," observed the bench of justice Anupinder Singh Grewal and justice Deepak Manchanda. The bench made the observation during resumed hearing of a plea initiated in 2023 in connection with the interviews aired by a private channel of gangst...