Chandigarh, Oct. 2 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday directed the Punjab and Haryana government to come up with comprehensive policies on security cover provided to judicial officers.

"We expect the state of Haryana as well as state of Punjab to come out with a comprehensive policy, so that this entire issue of depending upon the whims and fancies of the states for providing security cover to the judicial officers, not only posted in the registry of this court, but also in all the districts and sub-divisions, is resolved once and for all," the bench of chief justice Sheel Nagu and justice Sanjiv Berry said during resumed hearing of a suo motu public interest litigation (PIL), initiated by high court on August 28.

The iss...