Airbag Failure Can Be Inferred From Circumstances; Lab Test Not Mandatory In Every Case: P&H High Court Upholds Ford's Liability

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a writ petition filed by Ford India challenging concurrent orders of consumer fora directing refund of the price of a Ford EcoSport vehicle whose airbag safety system largely failed to deploy in a serious accident, holding that a manufacturing defect of this nature can be inferred from the circumstances without a mandatory laboratory...

P&H High Court Pulls Up States For Non-Implementation Of Mental Healthcare Act, Directs Institutions To Be Made Functional

The Punjab and Haryana High Court, in a PIL on the implementation of the Mental Healthcare Act, 2017, has directed the States of Punjab and Haryana and the Chandigarh Administration to ensure that all institutions contemplated under the Act are made functional, after finding that the formation of the State Mental Health Authority, despite being a statutory obligation has largely remained...

RTI Applicant's Claim That Information Would Help Pending Civil Litigation Can't Override Third-Party Exemption: P&H High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a writ petition challenging the Punjab State Information Commission's refusal to furnish RTI information relating to an FIR, holding that an applicant's claim that the information would assist him in pending civil litigation does not, by itself, establish the larger public interest necessary to override the third-party information exemption...

Illegal Search Doesn't Automatically Warrant Quashing Of Criminal Complaint Under Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act: P&H High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed petitions seeking quashing of a criminal complaint under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994, holding that even if the underlying inspection was authorised by an individual officer rather than the collective three-member District Appropriate Authority, this does not automatically vitiate...

LiveLaw Punjab & Haryana High Court Weekly Roundup: September 07 - September 12, 2026

Nominal Index [Citations : 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 313 - 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 326]Inderjit Kaur v. State of Haryana and another; Gurjit Singh and others v. State of Haryana and another 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 313Kaushalya Rani v. Union of India through the office of Narcotics Control Bureau 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 314State of Haryana and Another versus Sanjeev Batish and Another 2026 LiveLaw (PH) 315STATE OF...

Woman Living On Her Own Earnings From Prostitution Can't Be Booked For Illegal Trafficking: P&H High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has observed that a woman accused of living on her own earnings from prostitution cannot be booked for illegal trafficking under Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act 1956. In doing so the court quashed charges framed against the woman under the Act who had originally lodged a gang-rape FIR but was subsequently made an accused during probe.The woman was charged...

"Cancellation Of Bail" And "Setting Aside Of Bail Order" Are Conceptually Distinct: P&H High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a petition seeking to set aside an order granting regular bail to a woman accused in a travel-fraud case, reiterating the settled distinction between "cancellation of bail" (which requires supervening circumstances or misconduct after release) and "setting aside of a bail order" (which requires the original order itself to be shown as perverse...

High Court Directs Chandigarh Municipal Commissioner, Chief Engineer To Inspect "Filthy" Access Road To Govt School

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Municipal Commissioner, Chandigarh and the Chief Engineer, UT Chandigarh, to forthwith inspect the passage leading to a Government Model Middle School in Sector 13, Chandigarh, and take appropriate remedial measures if it is found that no proper road exists for students to access the school.Chief Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice...

How Can Minister Be Implicated? High Court Questions Plea Over Death Of Punjab Labour Who Named Harpal Cheema In Video Statement

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has questioned how Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema could be implicated in the case concerning the death of Gulzar Singh, a Scheduled Caste daily wager in Sangrur, who had allegedly named the Minister in a video statement recorded shortly before his death.The question arose during the hearing of a Public Interest Litigation seeking transfer of...

P&H High Court Chief Justice Nominates Retired Justice Jaishree Thakur And Sr Advocate Gursharan Kaur Mann As State Bar Council Members

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has nominated retired Justice Jaishree Thakur and Senior Advocate Gursharan Kaur Mann as members of the Bar Council of Punjab & Haryana.The Registrar General issued a memorandum notifying the co-option/nomination of two members, in compliance with directions issued by the Supreme Court in Yogamaya M.G. v. Union of India and others, Writ Petition (Civil)...

P&H High Court Issues Notice On Contempt Plea Claiming IOA Prez PT Usha Failed To Send Player's Name For Asian Games Despite Assurance

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued notice on a contempt petition filed by a Taekwondo player against P.T. Usha, President of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), alleging that the Association failed to comply with an assurance recorded in an earlier court order regarding her participation in the Asian Games 2026. Justice Deepinder Singh Nalwa issued the notice after the...

'Abuse Of Process Of Law': P&H High Court Refuses Protection To Live-In Couple, Notes Both Partners Are Already Married & Have Children

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a writ petition filed by a man and woman, both already married to other people with children from their respective marriages, seeking protection of life and liberty for their live-in relationship, holding that the petition amounted to an attempt to cover up a "promiscuous relationship" under the guise of legal process.Justice Alok Jain...