Chandigarh, Sept. 9 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) on Monday admonished the municipal administration of Nayagaon over open manholes.

The court was hearing a public interest litigation by Sher Singh, highlighting the problem of open manholes in Nayagaon municipal council (MC), which as per the petitioner, the administration had failed to look into.

At one point of time, the bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry observed that the court's precious time was being wasted to look into municipal issues.

The PIL was filed in May seeking HC's intervention highlighting hazards posed by open manholes. However, when the matter was taken up on May 28, government counsel had submitted that all the manholes, which the ...