Chandigarh, Sept. 9 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday exhorted litigants not to press for immediate intervention from the court on the Punjab floods, as it may hamper relief activity being carried out by the authorities.

"Disaster relief teams are there, the army is there, everybody is working hard. Please don't cause any obstruction. .The moment we issue a notice, some people will be pulled out of that disaster management and will have to prepare a reply for these petitions. We don't want that," the bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry observed while dealing with three petitions seeking HC intervention on floods in Punjab.

On September 2, the high court deferred hearing on a PIL seeking directions to ...