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 Punjab and Haryana High Court

Immediate CCTV Access Must Be Given To Warrant Officer Inspecting Police Station For Illegal Detention: P&H High Court Issues Directions

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed that a Warrant Officer appointed by the Court in a habeas corpus matter must be given immediate and unhindered access to CCTV systems and relevant recordings when visiting a police station to verify allegations of illegal detention. [2026 LiveLaw (PH) 306]Justice Virinder Aggarwal said that the ordinary requirement of obtaining permission...

Pharmacist Cant Escape Licence Cancellation Over Unaccounted Psychotropic Drugs By Claiming Stock Was Never Sold: P&H High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has upheld the cancellation of a chemist's retail drug licences after unaccounted psychotropic tablets and record-keeping lapses were found at his shop, rejecting the argument that mere possession of the drugs, without proof of an actual sale, could not amount to a violation of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945. Justice Kuldeep Tiwari referring to Drugs...

School Bus Driver Owes Higher Duty To Drive Safely: P&H High Court Refuses To Reduce Sentence For Rash Driving

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has refused to reduce the sentence of a school bus driver convicted for rash and negligent driving after the bus he was driving overturned, leaving several school children, teachers and the conductor injured. [2026 LiveLaw (PH) 305]The Court observed that a school bus driver is under a “higher duty” to drive safely and responsibly while...

P&H High Court Orders Acquittal In 26-Year-Old Judicial File Theft Case, Says Suspicion Is Not Proof

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has acquitted the accused in a case involving the theft of a judicial file from the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, holding that the prosecution had, at best, raised suspicion but failed to establish a complete and unbroken chain of circumstantial evidence connecting the accused to the offence. [2026 LiveLaw (PH) 304]Justice Mandeep Pannu said, "The...

Absence Of Medical Certificate Cant Defeat Plea For Virtual Evidence Recording Due To Physical Infirmity: P&H High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that trial court cannot reject a person's application for recording evidence through video conferencing solely on the ground that no medical certificate was furnished for citing physical infirmity. Justice Deepinder Singh Nalwa observed that Video Conferencing Rules, framed by the High Court under Articles 225 and 227, provide for recording of...

Disclosure Statement Must Pass 6-Fold Test To Qualify U/S 27 Evidence Act: P&H High Court Acquits Four In Minor Sisters Rape-Murder Case

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has acquitted four men who had been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of two minor sisters, holding that none of the disclosure statements relied upon by the prosecution to justify recovery of physical evidence met the requirements for admissibility under Section 27 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872.The Division Bench of Justice Anoop Chitkara and...

Violates Article 21: High Court Quashes Haryanas Blanket Ban On Govt Employees Foreign Travel

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has struck down a Haryana Government instruction imposing a blanket ban on foreign travel, official or personal, by government employees, holding that such an indiscriminate prohibition, applied without regard to individual circumstances, violates Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution.Justice Harpreet Singh Brar said, "a blanket prohibition on an entire class...

P&H High Court Orders Inquiry Into Officers Responsible For Prolonged Murder Trial, Grants Interim Bail To Accused

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the District and Sessions Judge, Panipat, to conduct a fact-finding inquiry to identify the officials responsible for the prolonged pendency of an eight-year-old murder trial, while granting interim bail to an accused who has been in custody since 2018 for want of resources to furnish bail bonds despite an earlier bail order in his...

Surety Cant Be Held Liable For Entire Bond Merely Because Parolee Committed Another Crime; Forfeiture Must Be Proportionate: P&H High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has held that forfeiture of a surety bond furnished for a prisoner's parole cannot be directed for the entire amount in a mechanical manner, and that the authority concerned must exercise its discretion on quantum judicially, having regard to whether the surety was guilty of any deliberate default, negligence or connivance in the breach.Justice Manisha Batra...

Immigration Fraud Under Garb Of Consultancy A Growing Menace That Merits Strict Scrutiny, Not Pre-Arrest Bail Leniency: P&H High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has declined anticipatory bail to a man accused of cheating a woman of ₹5.8 lakh on the pretext of sending her abroad to Canada, holding that immigration fraud of this kind "does not merely involve financial deceit but strikes at the very fabric of social trust, involving elements of human trafficking and cross-border immigration fraud."Justice Sumeet...

High Court Declines CBI Probe Into FIR Amid Marital Discord Between Two Haryana Judicial Officers

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has declined to transfer to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) the probe into an FIR lodged by a judicial officer against his wife's alleged paramour. The Court held that the case, arising from a bitter matrimonial dispute between the petitioner and his wife, both judicial officers in Haryana, does not meet the threshold of a "rare and exceptional"...