Chandigarh, Oct. 17 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court has fined two Haryana officials over departmental inquiry and suspension of a teacher, who sought to skip Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Haryana's Hisar following his wife's death.

The court has imposed a fine of Rs.50,000 on the district elementary education officer (DEO), Hisar and the electoral registration officer (ERO)-cum-sub divisional officer (SDO-Civil), Barwala for "unnecessarily consuming" the court's time. The copy of the order has been ordered to be sent to the chief electoral officer, Haryana for information and for issuance of necessary instructions.

The teacher, Sunil Kumar works as junior basic teacher (JBT) in Barwala and was discharging duties of a...