Punjab & Haryana High Court Weekly Round-Up: December 08 - December 14, 2025

Nominal IndexDr. Janvi v. State of Punjab 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 471kamlesh Rani v. Sanjeev 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 472 GURSEWAK SINGH v. STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 473GURMEJ SINGH v. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 474Daljit Singh Grewal alias Bhola and others v. State of Punjab and others 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 475Gurcharan Dass and others v. State of Haryana and others 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 476Rajesh Kumar Giri and others v. Union of India and others 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 477MMTC LTD. v. STATEOF HARYANAANDORS. 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 478STATE BANK OF INDIA v. SUB REGISTRAR, SUB TEHSIL NIGHDU KARNAL AND OTHERS 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 479KRISHNA DEVI v. STATE OF HARYANA AND ORS 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 480Akash Walia v. State of Haryana and another 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 481Mohd. Arif and others v. State of Haryana and another 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 482ReportsPunjab & Haryana High Court Upholds One-Year Service Requirement For PCMS Doctors Seeking PG AdmissionTitle: Dr. Janvi v. State of PunjabCitation: 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 471The Punjab & Haryana High Court has dismissed a writ petition challenging the Punjab Government's circular, which mandates that Punjab Civil Medical Services (PCMS) doctors must complete at least one year of service before being permitted to pursue postgraduate (PG) medical courses under the non-incentive category.Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Rohit Kapoor said, "Though we find substance in the contention of the petitioner that ultimate oblect is to equip the department with better doctors but] considerations like rendering service to the department for some period cannot be said to be wholly without an purpose or irrational. It otherwise remains in the realm of policy of the State to require a minimum length of service and as we find that such policy cannot be termed to be irrational, we would not be justified in interfering with it only because a different view could be taken in the matter."Punjab & Haryana High Court Imposes ₹2 Lakh Cost On Tenant Over Almost Two-Year Delay In Vacating PremisesTitle: kamlesh Rani v. SanjeevCitation: 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 472The Punjab & Haryana High Court has imposed exemplary costs of ₹2,00,000 on a tenant for wilful and deliberate disobedience of its earlier order directing him to hand over vacant possession of the disputed property to the landlord by 30 April 2023.Despite having furnished a categorical undertaking before the Court, the tenant vacated the premises only on 5 September 2025, nearly two years after the deadline.Zila Parishad Polls | P&H High Court Declines To Interfere With Refusal To Verify Candidate's NOC; Says Challenge Barred Under Article 243-OTitle: GURSEWAK SINGH v. STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERSCitation: 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 473The Punjab & Haryana High Court has declined to interfere in a writ petition filed by a candidate for the Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections in Punjab, challenging the Halka Patwari's refusal to verify the No Objection Certificate (NOC) required for filing his nomination.Article 243-O of the Constitution bars courts from interfering in Panchayat (local village government) elections and electoral processes, meaning disputes about delimitation (constituency drawing) or the results themselves must follow specific election petitions to designated authorities, not High Courts or the Supreme Court directly, safeguarding the autonomy of grassroots democracy.UAPA| Punjab & Haryana High Court Dismisses Bail In Terror Funding Case Involving Cross-Border SyndicateTitle: GURMEJ SINGH v. UNION OF INDIA AND ANOTHER Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 474The Punjab & Haryana High Court has dismissed two appeals filed by accused persons challenging the rejection of their second bail applications, in a major narco-terror case involving cross-border smuggling of heroin, weapons, explosives and alleged terror-funding linked with Pakistan-based handlers, including designated terrorist Lakhbir Singh Rode.A bench of Justice Gurvinder Singh Gill and Justice Ramesh Kumari said, "Facts of this case it reveals that money received from sale of narcotic substance smuggled from across the border is used for terror funding and the accused-appellants are actively involved in India for terror funding at the behest of their masters who are working from across the border i.e. in Pakistan. The consignments of arms and ammunition, currency notes and narcotic substances i.e. Heroine is delivered from across the border."2015 Sacrilege Incident | P&H High Court Refuses To Quash FIR Against Ex-MLA, Says Bar U/S 195 CrPC Only Arises At Cognisance StageTitle: Daljit Singh Grewal alias Bhola and others v. State of Punjab and othersCitation: 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 475The Punjab & Haryana High Court has declined to quash 2015 FIR, registered against former MLA Simarjeet Singh Bains and others, arising out of a protest related to the 2015 Bargari sacrilege incident.Section 195 CrPC prevents courts from taking cognizance for specific offenses, primarily those against...

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