Chandigarh, July 4 -- Punjab and Haryana high court chief justice Sheel Nagu on Thursday recused himself from hearing a petition filed by a Gurugram builder that sought to quash an FIR in a corruption case.

The move came after the petitioner's lawyer raised objection to the chief justice continuing to hear the case. Chief justice Nagu on May 10 in an administrative order had withdrawn the case from another judge who was set to pronounce the final judgment and listed it before his own bench. The withdrawal was prompted by "oral and written complaints", chief justice Nagu had said.

The petition filed by real estate firm M3M's director Roop Bansal seeks to quash an FIR filed by the Haryana anti-corruption bureau in April 2023 against himse...