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Chandigarh, Mar 31 (PTI) The Punjab and Haryana High Court has acquitted AAP MLA Manjinder Singh Lalpura and seven others in a 2013 molestation and assault case following a compromise between the two parties. Allowing the petition, the bench of Justice Tribhuvan Dahiya set aside the judgement of a court in Punjab's Tarn Taran, convicting and sentencing the MLA and seven others to four years of imprisonment in last September. The bench also quashed the FIR registered in March 2013 at the Tarn T ...Read More >
The PIL does not challenge any specific election result but seeks preventive measures to enhance accountability and deter malpractices. With the counting of votes for Punjab's Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections scheduled for December 17, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president and Ludhiana MP Amarinder Singh Raja Warring has approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court through a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) demanding compulsory videography of the entire counting process ...Read More >
Khadoor Sahib MP argued that under the democratic system of India, any elected representative holds the right to put across his point of view. Jailed MP Amritpal Singh Tuesday appeared in person via video conference in the Punjab and Haryana High Court and argued his petition seeking parole to attend the ongoing winter session of Parliament. A division bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry heard Amritpal but kept the matter for Wednesday as lawyers continued to abstain fro ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Dec 16 (PTI) Jailed Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh on Tuesday appeared before the Punjab and Haryana High Court through video conferencing and argued on his plea for parole to attend the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament. Amritpal Singh (32), a Khalistani sympathiser who has been lodged in Assam's Dibrugarh jail following his detention in April 2023 under the National Security Act, has challenged the Punjab government's decision denying him parole to attend the Winter Session of ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab General Secretary Baltej Pannu on Monday rebutted the allegations raised by Opposition parties over Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections, stating they have resorted to false propaganda as it is clearly staring at a massive defeat. Addressing the media here, Pannu said the local body elections were conducted in a completely peaceful, fair and transparent manner, a first in many decades in Punjab. He said people participated enthusiastically and e ...Read More >
Chandigarh: State Election Commission (SEC) late Sunday evening ordered re-poll at several places after minor skirmishes were reported during the rural polls in Punjab on Sunday. An official statement said that the elections to elect the members from 347 zones of 22 Zila Parishads and from 2,838 zones of 153 Panchayat Samitis were conducted peacefully in the state with no reports of any major clash from anywhere in the state. However, the SEC ordered re-poll at the nine booths in different are ...Read More >
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], December 15 (ANI): Punjab Congress chief and Lok Sabha MP Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Monday moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court, seeking mandatory videography of the counting of votes in recently held Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections in order to ensure "free, fair and transparent" elections at the grassroots level. In a public interest litigation, the Punjab Congress chief, through his counsel Nikhil Ghai, submitted that the petition was filed " ...Read More >
Meanwhile, confusion prevailed on the Panjab University campus on Wednesday, with the release of the notification by the Ministry of Education, stating that the Centre "withdraws its decision to scrap the Panjab University Senate". Accusing the Centre of making a mockery of the issue as "no notification has been cancelled and the government has merely tried to create confusion," the Students Organisation of Panjab University (SOPU) on Wednesday reiterated that the call for a massive protest on ...Read More >
In a pivotal moment for India's judiciary, Chief Justice BR Gavai has put forth his recommendation for Justice Surya Kant to ascend as the next Chief Justice, succeeding him on November 24. As the senior-most Judge, Justice Kant is set to lead as the 53rd CJI for an anticipated 15 months. Chief Justice of India BR Gavai has recommended justice Surya Kant as his successor, people in the know said. CJI has written to the central government regarding this. CJI Gavai is set to demit office on Novem ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The government appointed Justice Surya Kant as the 53rd Chief Justice of India (CJI), the law ministry announced on Thursday.He will formally take oath on November 24, succeeding Chief Justice Bhushan Gavai, and will become the first top justice from Haryana.Who is Justice Surya Kant? Born on February 10, 1962, in Petwar, a small village in Hisar district of Haryana, he grew up in a modest household. His father was a school teacher, and young Kant often helped with farm work while pu ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Union government on Thursday notified the appointment of Justice Surya Kant as the next Chief Justice of India (CJI), marking the first time a jurist from Haryana will occupy the country's highest judicial office. He will take oath on November 24, a day after incumbent CJI Bhushan R Gavai demits office. Justice Kant will serve as the 53rd CJI and will have a tenure of about 14 months, retiring on February 9, 2027. The notification comes two days after CJI Gavai initiated the appo ...Read More >
The comment was made during the 2020-21 farmer protests against the now-repealed farm laws. (File) Bathinda/Chandigarh: Actor-politician Kangana Ranaut on Monday appeared before a court here in a defamation case and said there was a "misunderstanding" about her 2021 tweet and that every 'mata' (mother) is respectable to her. The court had last September directed the BJP MP from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh to be present in person and rejected her plea to appear via video conference. Security wa ...Read More >
The government on Thursday initiated the process to appoint the next chief justice of India as incumbent B R Gavai demits office on November 23, In an era where almost all aspects of governance and decision-making involves the usage of technology, in varying degrees, Justice Surya Kant, poised to assume the office of Chief Justice of India (CJI) next month, has been a strong proponent of profound human enterprise in the domain of dispensing justice. In his recent address, Justice Surya Kant, ...Read More >
Bathinda/Chandigarh, Oct 27 (PTI) Actor-politician Kangana Ranaut on Monday appeared before a court here in a defamation case and said there was a "misunderstanding" about her 2021 tweet and that every 'mata' (mother) is respectable to her. The court had last September directed the BJP MP from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh to be present in person and rejected her plea to appear via video conference. Security was beefed up in and around the Bathinda court complex ahead of the actor's appearance. T ...Read More >
As the clock ticks towards November 23, the government is gearing up to choose the next Chief Justice of India. Current Chief Justice, B R Gavai, is set to retire, and the Union Law Minister will consult him for a successor recommendation. The government on Thursday initiated the process to appoint the next chief justice of India as incumbent B R Gavai demits office on November 23, sources said. The letter asking Justice Gavai to name his successor is set to be delivered either this evening or ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 27 (SocialNews.XYZ) Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan R. Gavai on Monday recommended the name of Justice Surya Kant as his successor to the Centre, paving the way for Justice Kant to become the 53rd Chief Justice of India. The recommendation comes in response to the Law Ministry seeking CJI Gavai's suggestion for his successor, as he is set to retire on November 23. Justice Surya Kant, currently the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court and next in line by seniority, will as ...Read More >
New Delhi, October 27: Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bhushan R. Gavai on Monday recommended the name of Justice Surya Kant as his successor to the Centre, paving the way for Justice Kant to become the 53rd Chief Justice of India. The recommendation comes in response to the Law Ministry seeking CJI Gavai's suggestion for his successor, as he is set to retire on November 23. Justice Surya Kant, currently the senior-most judge of the Supreme Court and next in line by seniority, will assume office u ...Read More >
Former Punjab DGP Mohammad Mustafa has broken his silence following his son Aqil Akhtar's death, attributing it to an 18-year struggle with drug addiction and an overdose. He dismissed foul play allegations as "petty politics" and vowed to cooperate with the investigation, stating he has done nothing wrong. Former Punjab DGP Mohammad Mustafa has broken his silence over the death of his son, Aqil Akhtar, amidst allegations and an FIR registered against him, his wife, Razia Sultana, daughter, and ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Union government has written to Chief Justice of India (CJI) B.R. Gavai, seeking his recommendation for the appointment of his successor. The process marks the formal initiation of the appointment procedure for the next CJI, a step that is conventionally taken about a month before the incumbent demits office. CJI Gavai is scheduled to retire on November 23. This is in line with the established convention that the outgoing CJI names the senior-most judge ...Read More >
The last rites of Aakil Akhtar, 35, are scheduled to be held at his ancestral village, Harda Kheri, in Uttar Pradesh's Saharanpur, on Friday. Former Punjab director general of police (DGP) Mohammad Mustafa's 35-year-old son, Aakil Akhtar, died in Haryana's Panchkula on Friday. A post-mortem examination has been conducted, and further details are expected to emerge once the report is received, a police official said. Akhtar, who was practising as an advocate in the Punjab and Haryana High Court ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The nomination process for Punjab's lone Rajya Sabha seat took an unexpected turn on Monday as Navneet Chaturvedi, national president of the Janata Party, staked his claim by filing a fresh nomination as an independent. He asserted he had the signatures of 10 AAP MLAs as proposers, the authenticity of which the returning officer will establish during the scrutiny process on Tuesday.Speaking to TOI, Chaturvedi said that his nomination was a "symbolic fight" with the objective of bring ...Read More >
The court also cited rules governing employees of the petitioner which stated that except for cancer due to smoking, the rest of the cancers have been treated to be attributable to military service. A division bench of Justices Harsimran Singh Sethi and Vikas Suri made these observations while rejecting the Centre's petition challenging a 2019 order of the Armed Forces Tribunal . The tribunal had directed that Kumari Salochna Verma be granted special family pension from the date of her son's d ...Read More >
At a time when most people use keyboards to write, does handwriting really matter? Yes, say Indian courts, if the writer is a doctor. Jokes around the notoriously bad handwriting of many doctors that can only be deciphered by pharmacists are common in India, as around the world. But the latest order emphasising the importance of clear handwriting came recently from the Punjab and Haryana High Court which said that "legible medical prescription is a fundamental right" as it can make a differenc ...Read More >
Actor and MP Kangana Ranaut has been ordered by a court to appear in person on October 27 in a defamation case. The case involves her retweet concerning Mahinder Kaur during the 2020-21 farmer protests. The court denied her plea to attend via video-conference, demanding her physical presence. The court has instructed actor and Member of Parliament Kangana Ranaut to appear in person on October 27, after rejecting her request to attend via video-conference in a defamation case. Originating from ...Read More >
Bathinda, Sep 29 (PTI) A court here on Monday directed actor and MP Kangana Ranaut to be present in person on October 27 in a defamation case, rejecting her plea for appearing through video-conferencing. The defamation case stems from the actor's retweet consisting of her own comment about complainant Mahinder Kaur of Bahadurgarh Jandian village in Punjab's Bathinda district during the 2020-21 farmer protests against the now-repealed farm laws. Ranaut's counsel had submitted an application see ...Read More >
Chandigarh, Sep 26 (PTI) The Punjab and Haryana High Court has described drunken driving as a grave menace which strikes at the root of societal order and also held that any leniency in such cases would send a wrong signal and embolden others to indulge in similar hazardous conduct. The court of justice Sumeet Goel passed these observations while rejecting the bail plea of a truck driver, who had hit a parked car on the Sangrur-Patiala road, leaving a 24-year-old MBBS student dead. A case was ...Read More >
TARN TARAN: AAP MLA from Khadoor Sahib, Manjinder Singh Lalpura, and 10 others - six of them policemen - were on Wednesday found guilty of molestation and assault of a woman 13 years ago.Additional sessions judge Prem Kumar of Tarn Taran district court said the sentence would be pronounced Friday. Police arrested eight of the accused, including the MLA, and sent them to jail, said the survivor's lawyer, Amit Dhawan. According to him, the survivor said she was "happy that justice has been served" ...Read More >
The Punjab and Haryana High Court had dismissed a smiliar petition last month. New Delhi: Denied relief by the Punjab and Haryana High Court, actor and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut has approached the Supreme Court for cancelling a case against her in connection with alleged defamatory remarks made during the 2020-21 protests against three farm laws. A Supreme Court bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta will hear her petition on Friday. Ms Ranaut, who is the Member of Parliament from Mandi ...Read More >
New Delhi, Sep 12: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain a plea filed by actor and Member of Parliament Kangana Ranaut seeking to quash a defamation case linked to her 2021 tweet about an elderly woman protester at the farmers' agitation, Bar and Bench reported. A Bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta observed that Ranaut's remarks could not be brushed aside in a quashing petition. "You added spice. It was not a simple retweet . The interpretation of this tweet can't be co ...Read More >
The Punjab and Haryana High Court denied anticipatory bail to a Nuh resident accused of transporting cows for slaughter, citing the cow's sacred status and potential for public unrest. The court emphasized the emotional and cultural significance of cows in India, highlighting the accused's history of similar offenses and the need for custodial interrogation. The cow is a pious animal and "certain acts" can severely impact peace when they offend beliefs of a "significant population group", the P ...Read More >
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