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Justice Mishra sworn in as Punjab and Haryana HC chief justice; Mann skips ceremony

India, Sept. 7 -- Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra was sworn in as chief justice of the Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday morning, an event conspicuously skipped by Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Ma... Read More


'Nearly half of inmates in Punjab jails drug addicts'

Chandigarh, Sept. 2 -- A report submitted by the Punjab government's prisons department to the high court has revealed that an alarming 45% of inmates in the state's jails are drug addicts. The affida... Read More


Take steps to prevent deaths by electrocution or face action: HC

Chandigarh, Aug. 29 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) has categorically told authorities in Nayagaon and Chandigarh to take steps to ensure there is no loss of human life due to dangerously in... Read More


HC acquits 4 death row convicts in '21 rape-murder of 2 minor sisters

Chandigarh, Aug. 27 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has acquitted four persons who were awarded the death sentence by a Sonepat court in the rape and murder case of two minor migrant girls in the... Read More


HC acquits 4 death row convicts in 2021 rape, murder of girls in Hry

Chandigarh, Aug. 27 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has acquitted four people on death row for the rape and murder of two minor girls in Haryana's Sonipat district in August 2021. The accused all... Read More


HC acquits 4 death row convicts in 2021 rape, murder of girls in Hry

Chandigarh, Aug. 27 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has acquitted four people on death row for the rape and murder of two minor girls in Haryana's Sonipat district in August 2021. The accused all... Read More


No employee can insist onde-reservation of post: HC

Chandigarh, Aug. 19 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has held that no employee belonging to the general category can insist that a reserved vacancy must necessarily be de-reserved for his benefit.... Read More


No employee can insist on de-reservation of post: HC

Chandigarh, Aug. 19 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has held that no employee belonging to the general category can insist that a reserved vacancy must necessarily be de-reserved for his benefit.... Read More


Stamp duty based on sale deed date, not agreement, rules HC

Chandigarh, Aug. 6 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has said that the stamp duty must be determined as per the market rate prevailing at the time of execution of the sale deed and not on the date ... Read More


4 yrs after Panipat court awards death penalty, HC orders retrial

Chandigarh, Aug. 5 -- Four years after a trial court awarded death sentence to two persons for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in 2018, the Punjab and Haryana high court has remanded back th... Read More