Chandigarh, July 11 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has ordered an inquiry into the disappearance of documents from a judicial file in a Ludhiana district courts.

The HC bench of justice, Harsh Bunger, directed district and sessions judge, Ludhiana that a fact finding inquiry be conducted and responsibility of the officials concerned be fixed and same be communicated to the HC.

The direction came while dismissing a petition against a lower court order, wherein plaintiff was permitted to prove the document by way of secondary evidence or by producing the original.

The case stems from a recovery of Rs.32 lakh for which a gurdwara had filed a recovery suit against a former office bearer. It was based on a report prepared by a three-m...