IT Chandigarh

Chandigarh: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has been hauled up by the Court of Special CBI Judge, Jagdeep Jain, in an ongoing case of corruption against Bikramjit Singh, former Principal Secretary, Punjab.
The CBI had accused him of “amassing wealth disproportionate to his known sources of income”. The CBI had alleged that Singh had maintained [...]

Chandigarh: The Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal of the UT Administration, whereby it had challenged a CBI inquiry ordered by the Punjab and Haryana High Court to search the accused who were declared Proclaimed Offenders in the 1991 bomb blast case.
Director of Punjab Vigilance, Sumedh Singh Saini, who was also attacked in the bomb [...]

Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court directed the District and Sessions Judge to personally enquire in the murder case of Inderjeet Singh.
The directions were passed by the High Court on a petition filed by Allah Singh, an old man battling for justice for nearly 23 years. The High Court observed that the process server [...]

Pay-scale issue
Chandigarh: In an order expected to benefit as many as 44 Chandigarh Transport Undertaking employees, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today disposed of their petition with a direction that they “shall be deemed to have been granted revised pay scales with effect from January 1, 1986, instead of November [...]

Chandigarh: In the ongoing litigation of ‘controversial’ Haryana Civil Services (HCS) examination which stands challenged in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, senior advocate Mohan Jain, counsel for the complainant, has alleged that a number of glaring irregularities had surfaced after inspection of the records of candidates.
Karan Singh Dalal, a sitting MLA of the Republican [...]

Chandigarh: A division bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, while acquitting a murder convict, strongly advised use of extreme caution in cases where circumstantial evidence was the only evidence.
Mangat Ram, a resident of Haryana, was acquitted by the High Court after it found that life imprisonment was awarded to him merely on the [...]

CHANDIGARH: Taking a global view on capital punishment, the Punjab and Haryana High Court bench refused to hand down death sentence to Satish, a serial killer. Disposing the appeal filed by Haryana government, the division bench of justices Adarsh Kumar Goel and SD Anand concurred with the verdict of a trial court against awarding death [...]

Chandigarh: Expressing shock over a series of attempt to rape, rape and murder of girls by a serial killer, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today upheld his life imprisonment.
Dispensing away with the judgment against an appeal filed by the serial killer, Satish, a resident of Haryana, a Division Bench headed by Justice A.K. Goel [...]

Chandigarh: In a significant judgment which may well be used as a guideline in lower courts, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today held that mere absence of an independent witness cannot make the case of prosecution doubtful.
The orders were passed by a division bench headed by Justice J S Khehar in a narcotics case, [...]

Panchkula: Continuing with the protest against demolition of their sheds at the local court complex on the second day, lawyers here blocked the road to the mini-secretariat by parking their cars near the court complex today. Later, hundreds of them marched towards the residence of deputy commissioner Rajinder Kataria where they burnt an effigy while [...]