Punjab & Haryana High Court Weekly Round-Up: July 24 - July 30

Nominal Index

Citations: 2023 LiveLaw (PH) 134 To 2023 LiveLaw (PH) 135

Gurmeet Singh v. State of Punjab 2023 LiveLaw (PH) 134

Ashish Kapoor & Anr. v. Manmohan Kumar & Ors 2023 LiveLaw (PH) 135

Reports

'There Can Be No Leniency While Dealing With Bail Petitions Of Cyber Thugs': Punjab & Haryana High Court

Case Title: Gurmeet Singh v. State of Punjab

Citation: 2023 LiveLaw (PH) 134

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has rejected the pre-arrest bail plea of a man in a case related to the hacking of computers of a centre where online examinations for recruitment to various departments were conducted.

Justice Anoop Chitkara said the allegations against the petitioner and co-accused are grave and the evidence collected so far points to the petitioner’s involvement in the case.

High Court Directs Punjab Police SI To Pay Compensation of Rs 10,000 To Accused For Lodging Drugs Case 'Without Any Basis'

Case Title: Pushpinder Kumar alias Pushpinder Singh alias Tinku v. State of Punjab

Citation: 2023 LiveLaw (PH) 135

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has directed a Punjab Police official, who got an FIR registered under under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act “without any basis”, to pay compensation of Rs.10,000 to the accused.

Since the FIR has been got registered even before creating a basis for that, and due to the FIR, the petitioner has been put to the harassment and expenses, therefore, the person, who got the said FIR registered against the petitioner without any basis is directed to pay a compensation of 10,000/- to the petitioner within a period of four weeks from today,” said the bench of Justice Rajbir Sehrawat.

Other Developments

Punjab & Haryana High Court Issues Notice On Former Punjab AIG Ashish Kapoor's Contempt Plea Over Registration Of Back To Back FIRs

Case Title: Ashish Kapoor & Anr. v. Manmohan Kumar & Ors.

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has issued a notice in a contempt plea filed against AIG Manmohan Kumar and other police officials for alleged violation of the court’s direction to not act on the recommendation of the State Police Complaint Authority to re-investigate the rape and extortion case against former AIG Ashish Kapoor.

Punjab & Haryana High Court Issues Notice On Plea Challenging Blocking Of Lawyer's Twitter Handle By Punjab Police

Case Title: Nikhil Saraf v. State of Punjab

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has issued notice on a plea seeking directions to Punjab Police to unblock a Twitter account being run by a lawyer. The plea also alleges that officials are operating the social media accounts of various police districts and commissionerates without any valid legal sanction.

Justice Vinod S. Bharadwaj issued the notice to the respondents and listed the matter for hearing on October 12.

Punjab & Haryana HC Stays Chandigarh DM's Order To Demolish 'Dhabas' In Front Of High Court Premises

Case Title: Prithviraj Yadav v. Punjab & Haryana HC Administration

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has kept the Chandigarh administration’s demolition order in abeyance until next hearing, which was planned for today and tomorrow to remove alleged illegal encroachment in front of High Court’s premises.

The bench of Justice G.S Sandhawalia and Justice Harpreet Kaur Jeewan said, “the demolition order dated 24.07.2023, passed by the District Magistrate, U.T., Chandigarh, whereby a drive is to be carried out to remove the illegal encroachment/'Dhabas' from the Government land in front of the High Court premises on 29.07.2023 and 30.07.2023 at 08:00 A.M. be kept in abeyance, till the next date of hearing.”

Long Weekend? Punjab & Haryana High Court Bar Association Requests Chief Justice To Declare August 14 As Holiday

The Punjab & Haryana High Court Bar Association has written a letter to the high court, requesting it to declare August 14 as a local holiday.

It said that an "oral as well as a written request signed by more than 200 members of the Bar Association" has been received for declaring August 14 as a local holiday as the High Court is already closed from August 12 to August 15, except on August 14, which is a working day.