Chandigarh, May 8 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has restrained the Punjab government from interfering in water regulation work of Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) at Nangal.

The high court bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sumeet Goel expressed its displeasure over Punjab's handing of the situation and directed that May 2 decision of the Union home ministry, allowing release of more water to Haryana, be implemented. If Punjab is not agreeable to the decision, the government can approach the Centre, it added.

"If this allegation of the BBMB is correct, then the deployment of police force for interfering in the management and functioning of the BBMB cannot be appreciated. Punjab Police cannot interfere in the day-to-...