Chandigarh, May 29 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) has stayed the May 23 order of the municipal commissioner terminating the contract of Lions Company, which is responsible for cleaning the city's southern sectors - Sectors 31 to 56, 61 and 63.

A division bench, comprising justice Deepak Sibal and justice Lapita Banerji, passed the order while hearing the firm's plea for quashing the commissioner's decision.

Lions Company has been carrying out mechanised and manual sweeping in the city since 2016, when it first got the tender.

The firm stated that the MC had floated a tender on December 31, 2025, inviting bids for geographic information system (GIS)-based sweeping in the southern sectors.

According to the plea, the company w...