DLF will appeal against a verdict ordering demolition of the special economic zone in Gurgaon.
The Haryana Janhit Congress, founded by former chief minister Bhajan Lal, on Wednesday moved the Punjab and Haryana high court seeking the disqualification of five Members of Legislative Assembly who were elected on party tickets but subsequently joined the ruling Congress.HJC chief Kuldeep Bishnoi filed a writ petition seeking the disqualification of the MLAs under the 10th Schedule of the Constitution.Justice Kohli also issued a notice to the Election Commission.
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday dismissed an appeal seeking details of the "religion and faith" of United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi and her children under the Right To Information Act, saying the petitioner was trying to encroach on their privacy.
In an apparent attack on the first family of the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday alleged that rules were bent to acquire 1,400 acres in Gurgaon's Ullawas village by the Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust and asked the ruling party if its stand was the same on farmers' land everywhere.
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday sought details from the Haryana government about how disgraced former top police official S P S Rathore was promoted to the rank of director general of police when a complaint of molestation was pending against him.The direction came while hearing a PIL filed by a local advocate seeking a fresh case against Rathore for abetment to teenager Ruchika Girhotra's suicide.
Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday agreed to grant adequate time to the counsel for disgraced former director general of police SPS Rathore to argue his petition seeking anticipatory bail in two fresh first investigation reports levelling serious criminal charges against him in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case.
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday adjourned till July 14 proceedings in the cash-for-judge scam case.
Former Haryana Director General of Police SPS Rathore would have to undergo his 18-month prison term with the Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday dismissing his plea challenging the sentence awarded to him for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra about 20 years back.
The chief minister has also directed Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta to look into the possible action that could be initiated against one of the film's producers, K V Dhillon, who had reportedly promised in writing, back in 2019, that he would shelve the movie, originally titled 'Sukha Khalwan'.
The ruling, in favour of the government, will protect over Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) of revenue the tax department was expecting from the service.
SPS Rathore's lawyer wife Abha, who has challenged his conviction in Ruchika molestation case, on Wednesday told the court that the prosecution had failed to hear certain key witnesses present at the scene of the alleged crime who could have unravelled the entire truth.
'The Punjab police was taking the prime minister by road for 100 km for the first time, maybe in the last many years.' 'But the SPG keeps travelling with the prime minister every second-third day outside Delhi.' 'They are better aware of the drill; they understand the PM's security parameters better than the Punjab police.' 'They could have refused even if the clearance was given by the Punjab police.'
Without giving any interim protection, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation for January 18 on disgraced former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore's petitions seeking anticipatory bail in FIRs containing serious criminal charges.
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Tuesday commuted the death sentence of Jagtar Singh Hawara, the mastermind in the Beant Singh assassination case, to life imprisonment, while it upheld the trial court's penalty to the four other accused in the case.A division bench of the court comprising Justice Mehtab Singh Gill and Justice Arvind Kumar termed the case of Hawara, who was awarded the capital punishment by the trial court in 2007, as a 'boundary line for death'.
The high court asked the state government to make arrangements for security and safe transport by air of the judicial officer and two staff members.
Aseemanand, a member of right-wing Hindu group Abhinav Bharat, has been in jail since December 2010.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court adjourned till September 29 the hearing on two fresh FIRs filed against former Director General of Police SPS Rathore in Ruchika molestation case charging him with serious offences like attempt to murder after the Central Bureau of Investigation again sought more time to file its reply.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court will on Monday hear the bail plea of former Haryana Director General of Police SPS Rathore against the six-months sentence and conviction in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case.The court also decided to conduct in-camera hearings of the trial. Only the Central Bureau of Investigation, and the Rathore and Girhotra families will be allowed at the hearings. Media personnel have been barred from the proceedings.
The case against Ahlawat was registered at Yamunanagar police station on June 8 on the charges of sexual harassment of the woman lawyer in 2002 when he was the then Superintendent of Police (SP) of Yamunanagar.
The district and police administration on Monday faced an uphill task in dispersing 'godman' Rampal's followers, including a large number of women and children, who had pitched camp at his Satlok Ashram.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has granted interim bail to former Haryana Director General of Police SPS Rathore in the two fresh FIRs filed against him in the Ruchika molestation case.
In August, the Supreme Court had said that the total amount should be deposited within 3 months with its Registry, pending the outcome of the appeal filed by the DLF against the May 19 order of Competition Appellate Tribunal's upholding the penalty imposed by CCI.
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday extended the two anticipatory bail applications and a petition demanding cancellation of abetment to suicide charges against former Haryana Director General of Police SPS Rathore, in connection with the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, till January 25.The high court had earlier on January 12 rejected the interim bail plea of Rathore, and asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to file its reply in the case by January 18.
Disgraced former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, sentenced to 18-month prison term by a court in Chandigarh in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, on Tuesday again failed to get any relief as the Punjab and Haryana High Court deferred the hearing in his bail petition till Wednesday.
Disgraced former Haryana director general of police SPS Rathore, who was sentenced to 18-months in prison by a Chandigarh court in the Ruchika molestation case, on Wednesday filed a review petition in the Punjab and Haryana high court and sought bail. Rathore's lawyer-wife Abha Rathore filed the review petition on his behalf in the court of Justice S S Saron. She alleged that the appellate court had on Tuesday passed the order 'under media pressure'.
World Human Rights Council (WHRC) Chairman Ranjan Lakhanpal, a local advocate, sought a thorough probe into the molestation, circumstances leading to the suicide of Ruchika three years after the molestation by then IGP S P S Rathore in 1990 and booking of her brother, Ashu, in false cases.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday adjourned till July 19 the hearing on two FIRs filed against former Director General Police SPS Rathore in the Ruchika molestation case after the Central Bureau of Investigation sought more time to conduct the probe.
On September 28, the high court had stayed the arrest of the three trustees of the Ryan group.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court adjourned till August 9 the hearing on two FIRs filed in January against former Director General of Police SPS Rathore in the Ruchika molestation case charging him with serious offences like attempt to murder.
A single judge bench granted stay on the arrest of group chief executive officer, Ryan Pinto, and his parents, founding chairman Augustine Pinto and managing director Grace Pinto.
The Punjab and Haryana high court has decided to conduct daily hearings from Friday on a revision petition of former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore, who has challenged the session court's verdict sentencing him to an 18-month jail term for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra.
Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore again failed to get any relief from the Punjab and Haryana High Court which adjourned till July 1 his plea challenging his 18-month jail term in the Ruchika molestation case.
Rathore was recently handed down a six-month imprisonment by a CBI court at Chandigarh for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika in Panchkula on August 12, 1990.
Taking suo motu cognisance of the Ruchika molestation case, the Punjab and Haryana high court has said it was a prime example of justice delayed is justice denied, while observing that the time has come to put on fast track cases against top policemen, bureaucrats and politicians. The court said the blame for the delay in the Ruchika case has to be shared by all concerned, including the justice delivery system.
The Supreme Court Collegium had recommended their names to the government last month.
The Dera's sprawling headquarters include an ostentatious '7-star MSG resort' with replicas of Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal, Kremlin and Disney World inside.
"Special leave is not a matter of right vested in the employee. It depends on the administrative exigencies," a bench of Justices S H Kapadia and Aftab Alam said while striking down a direction passed by Punjab and Haryana high court.
Singh had moved the High Court last week challenging the assembly's September 10 decision to strip him of his membership and declaring his Patiala seat vacant after a House Committee indicted him and three others in the case. The committee charged them with releasing 32.10 acres of Improvement Trust, Amritsar land for development by private colonisers in violation of rules following a complaint by a senior Congress leader Bir Devinder Singh.
Embattled former chief minister Amarinder Singh moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday, challenging his expulsion from the state Assembly.
In yet another case of honour killing, a newly-wed young man was lynched in the presence of police escort by villagers, who were opposed to his marrying in the same sub-caste or gotra, when he came to take back his wife in Haryana's Jind district.
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