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Thursday, May 21, 2026
TopicPunjab and Haryana High Court

Topic: Punjab and Haryana High Court

Harbhajan cries AAP vendetta over security withdrawal, HC pulls up Punjab govt over excess police cover

HC has asked Punjab Police to share details of how many persons within state and otherwise have been extended security cover, along with number of personnel attached with each protectee.

HC scraps Haryana assistant professor recruitments. What it found wrong with HPSC selection process

Punjab and Haryana High Court has ordered fresh selection strictly according to UGC norms & declared as unlawful state’s 2022 memorandum modifying 2018 UGC Regulations.

Punjab, Haryana prisons to get soundproof rooms. How lawyer’s complaint turned into landmark directive

Two-judge bench makes it clear that videoconferencing facility is strictly for the accused and their counsel, not for their family members.

Haryana bans ‘kachi parchi’ in grain markets—a scrap of paper that cheated farmers of crores

After retired IARI scientist moved Punjab & Haryana HC, state has told commission agents to stop issuing unauthorised slips & hand farmers J-Form that records transaction formally.

SC stays axing of cheating charges against 8 Haryana officers provisionally elevated to IAS. A 20-yr saga

Stay on HC order puts question mark on promotions of 8 officers named in a 2023 chargesheet for alleged irregularities in their original 2002 selection to Haryana Civil Services.

‘Ping pong’ witness, satsang that never was. Gaps in CBI probe that led to HC acquittal for Ram Rahim

HC’s acquittal for Dera chief Ram Rahim in journalist’s murder case rests on star witness who kept changing his testimony, a satsang CBI failed to verify, and sub-inspector CBI chose not to examine.

Why HC has turned a disabled PAU scientist’s plea for suitable housing into Public Interest Litigation

Plea filed in January by Kuldeep Singh Bhullar, who has been employed with the Punjab Agricultural University for over 16 years and has a condition that has led to 60% disability.

‘Loss claim fictional’—HC’s earful to CBI in clean chit to Hooda, AJL in Panchkula land re-allotment

Punjab & Haryana HC said there was no evidence of 'dishonest intention' & continuation of trial in the 2005 case would be a 'miscarriage of justice'.

Why Punjab & Haryana High Court suspended a convict’s 20-year sentence in POCSO case

A division bench passed the order on 6 February, allowing the convict to walk free on bail pending his appeal, despite opposition from the state. He had spent about six months in jail.

Treatment at non-empanelled hospital, why HC ordered full reimbursement to Haryana govt employee

The state contended the employee was not entitled to relief beyond what was sanctioned under Medical Reimbursement Policy, & that he was attempting to circumvent policy norms.

On Camera

Norway’s Modi cartoon was not satire. Just colonial laziness

Political satire is indispensable to democracy, racial caricature isn’t. If Europe’s liberal press still cannot tell difference, then decolonisation never happened in their imagination.

Recovery of unclaimed shares, dividends now takes days, not yrs. EAC-PM credits investor watchdog revamp

PM-EAC paper says overhaul of Investor Education and Protection Fund Authority system sharply improved processing speed and reduced paperwork for investors.

Dragon’s armour: How Xi reshaped China’s military with theatre commands a decade before India’s push

While India yet to set in motion theaterisation of armed forces, China's military reforms combined China’s Army, Navy, Air Force and Rocket Force aimed at regional dominance & tight political control.

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.