Chandigarh, Sept. 3 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has quashed the termination of deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Gursher Singh Sandhu in connection with gangster Lawrence Bishnoi interview controversy.

Sandhu, a 2016-batch officer, was dismissed by the Punjab government on January 2, 2025, for allegedly facilitating the recording of an interview of Bishnoi in police custody in September 2022 when the gangster was in a Kharar CIA facility.

In March 2023, a private news channel aired two interviews of Bishnoi. The Punjab Police had initially denied that these interviews took place within the state. Later, an SIT probe found that one of the interviews was conducted at Punjab Police facility in Kharar on the intervening night o...