IL&FS is now facing bankruptcy proceedings in the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, putting the rail service at risk of closure. The Gurgaon Metro will be operated and maintained by IL&FS till September 17 midnight as a licensee while its operational cost will be borne by
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on took critical note of the obstruction faced by litigants owing to the lawyers’ strike against the Central Government notification constituting the Haryana Administrative Tribunal. A Full Bench of Chief Justice Krishna Murari and Justices Rajiv Sharma and Rakesh Kumar Jain were unequivocal in expressing
Punjab and Haryana High Court’s verdict upholding the decision of Punjab government to narrow down the NRI category in medical college admissions is likely to have an impact on the petitions challenging a Sector-32 Government Medical College and Hospital’s decision to confine the NRI quota
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has declared the entire animal kingdom including avian and aquatic as legal entities having a distinct persona with corresponding rights, duties and liabilities of a living person. Justice Rajiv Sharma also declared that all the citizens throughout the State
In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 217 of the Constitution of India, the President, after consultation with the Chief Justice of India, has appointed Shri Justice Ajay Kumar Mittal, judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court To be the
THE PUNJAB and Haryana High Court sought a status report from the Punjab government on a Public Interest Litigation alleging illegal occupation of land worth “Rs 100 crore” in the heart of Ludhiana city. The land, according to the plea, belongs to the police department.
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) petition has been filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court calling for the issuance of uniform guidelines to be followed by Magistrates before ordering police investigation under Section 156(3) of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC). The PIL filed
The Central Government has notified the appointment of two judicial officers as additional judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Pursuant to a Supreme Court Collegium resolution passed last month, the government has given the green signal to the appointment of Lalit Batra and Arun Kumar Tyagi as additional judges
With a view to cut down on the space used up by voluminous judicial records, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has launched a project to digitize judicial records in subordinate courts. The digitization project was launched by Chief Justice Krishna Murari through video conferencing on Friday,
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has recently launched a series of initiatives aimed at making the system more litigant-friendly and environmental-friendly, apart from facilitating the expeditious disposal of cases. A press release issued by the Court highlights the following measures, which were introduced under