LiveLaw Punjab & Haryana High Court Weekly Round-Up: July 20 - July 26, 2026
Nominal Index [Citations: 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 236 - 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 243]State of Punjab v. Mohinder Singh and others 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 236Jagdish Ram v. State of Punjab 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 237Diljit Singh @ Diljeet Singh v. State of Punjab 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 238 Renu Kumari Rohal v. State of Haryana and others 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 239 XXXX v. State of Punjab 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 240Amritpal Kaur @...
Nominal Index [Citations: 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 236 - 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 243]
State of Punjab v. Mohinder Singh and others 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 236
Jagdish Ram v. State of Punjab 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 237
Diljit Singh @ Diljeet Singh v. State of Punjab 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 238
Renu Kumari Rohal v. State of Haryana and others 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 239
XXXX v. State of Punjab 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 240
Amritpal Kaur @ Amrit Kaur v. State of Punjab 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 241
Saksham Rathore v. State of Haryana and others 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 242
Anju Bala and others v. State of Haryana and another 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 243
Reports
Title: State of Punjab v. Mohinder Singh and others
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 236
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has upheld the acquittal of a man, his brother and his brother's wife in a case where a mother had alleged that they conspired to poison and kill her 22-year-old son by administering Aluminium Phosphide mixed in milk.
Title: Jagdish Ram v. State of Punjab
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 237
In a case that began with the seizure of 1.5 kilograms of khoya from a shop in Hoshiarpur in 1998, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has reduced the substantive jail sentence of a now-elderly convict to the period he had already undergone, invoking the speedy trial under Article 21 to a conviction under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954.
Title: Diljit Singh @ Diljeet Singh v. State of Punjab
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 238
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has denied regular bail to a man accused of sexually assaulting a minor child, holding that courts must be especially mindful while dealing with bail applications in cases of sexual violence against children, given the lasting and irreversible impact of such offences.
Title: Renu Kumari Rohal v. State of Haryana and others
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 239
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a writ petition challenging an Advertisement issued by the Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) for recruitment to 123 posts of Assistant Professor (Chemistry, College Cadre), holding that the additional Screening Test and Subject Knowledge Test prescribed by the State did not violate the UGC (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment of Teachers) Regulations, 2018.
Title: XXXX v. State of Punjab
Citation: 2026 LL (PH) 240
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has acquitted an appellant convicted in rape case in 2004, holding that the cumulative effect of several infirmities in the prosecution evidence, including the complete absence of injuries despite the prosecutrix's claim of a violent struggle created a reasonable doubt sufficient to displace the conviction.
Title: Amritpal Kaur @ Amrit Kaur v. State of Punjab
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 241
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has granted bail to a woman accused in an NDPS case involving the recovery of over 10 kilograms of heroin allegedly dropped by a drone from Pakistan, holding that her arrest appeared, prima facie, to have been effected without communicating the grounds of arrest to her or her nominated relative, as mandated under Article 22(1) of the Constitution and Section 52(1) of the NDPS Act.
Title: Saksham Rathore v. State of Haryana and others
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 242
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has allowed a writ petition filed by the son of a Brigadier-rank Army officer who died while serving in "Operation Snow Leopard", directing the State of Haryana to grant him compassionate appointment as a dependent of a "Battle Casualty," and expressing sharp displeasure at the State's stand rejecting his claim.
Title: Anju Bala and others v. State of Haryana and another
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 243
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has quashed a criminal complaint and the consequent summoning order against nine former members of the Gram Panchayat of a village in Ambala, including the then Sarpanch and Panches, who were facing trial on allegations of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy over the transfer of village common land for a 66 KV power sub-station.
Other Developments
Title: ARVIND SETH V/S STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has been moved through a Public Interest Litigation alleging denial of access to justice to litigants across Punjab on account of the ongoing strike by lawyers protesting against the Legal Aid Defence Counsel (LADC) Scheme.
Title: PARAMJIT KAUR VIS STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has directed a visa fraud accused, seeking quashing of an FIR on the basis of compromise, to publish a detailed public notice disclosing her criminal antecedents.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court Bar Association (PHHCBA) has announced that work at the High Court will remain suspended on July 24, 2026 (Friday), in solidarity with advocates observing a hunger strike against the implementation of the Legal Aid Defence Counsel (LADC) Policy.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has restrained all construction and development activity in sixteen villages in the Shivalik foothills near Chandigarh, including Karoran, Nada and Siswan and directed the State of Punjab to complete the demarcation of forest land in the area within six weeks, more than a decade after the Supreme Court first directed such an exercise to be carried out.