Chandigarh, Sept. 18 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday pulled up the Chandigarh administration for its failure to improve the state of cleanliness at the Sector-26 Mandi.

"Have you seen the muck that is there? You cannot even step into the market," the bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry observed after the court was apprised by the lawyers from Chandigarh administration that the market was to be shifted to Sector-39. However, the process remains in abeyance as the Supreme Court has stayed the process.

The observations from the court came during resumed hearing of a suo motu public interest litigation (PIL) initiated on July 30 over dis-ordinary fashion in which the vegetable and fruit market is bei...