Chandigarh, Sept. 26 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has ordered the immediate release of a Jalandhar businessman and sought an explanation from two officials of the Central Goods and Service Tax (CGST) commissionerate, Ludhiana.

".the facts which have emerged before the court would reveal that the respondent authorities considered the order of the court as a charter to proceed in the manner they deemed appropriate. The authorities have shown scant regard for the orders passed by the court as would be clearly reflected from the . (proceedings of the case)," the bench of chief justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and justice Rohit Kapoor observed while impleading two officers - principal commissioner, CGST, Sugrive Meena and senior intellige...