Shimla, Nov. 5 -- The Himachal Pradesh High Court has restrained the Himachal Pradesh State Cooperative Bank from taking coercive action against a petitioner whose salary was ordered to be attached by the bank's recovery authorities for repayment of a loan taken by another person, observing that the authorities should have exercised restraint while his appeal against the recovery proceedings was pending.
Justice Sandeep Sharma passed the directions in a judgment pronounced on Thursday, while disposing of a petition filed by Puneet Negi against the Himachal Pradesh State Cooperative Bank Limited and other respondents.
The court directed the Additional Registrar (Monitoring), Cooperative Societies, Himachal Pradesh, to decide Negi's pending...