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Justice Sumeet Goel held that further detention was not warranted, and imposed eight conditions including a monthly affidavit that the accused has committed no fresh offence.
Convicted of preparing to commit dacoity on a night in 2006, he has been in the criminal process for two decades. The conviction stands; the three-year term comes down to two.
A neighbour took a two-year-old from the street and buried her. The trial court sentenced her to hang. The Division Bench has upheld the conviction on the whole chain of circumstances and substituted thirty years without remission.
One colleague who appealed won an exemption the rest had never claimed. When twenty-one others asked to revise their returns, the Commissioner said they had given no reasons. The High Court has read the file and found otherwise.
Applying the Supreme Court's decision in Sarla Gupta, the Court holds an accused has no right to copies of un-relied material at the charge stage, and departs from its own earlier view.
Justice Sumeet Goel dismissed a petition to cancel regular bail in a travel-services fraud case, holding that seriousness of offence alone cannot justify setting aside a bail order.
Justice Vikram Aggarwal disposed of a writ petition seeking protection for a Muslim couple, directing the SSP Ludhiana to act on their representation without ruling on the marriage's validity.
Justice Alok Jain rejected a writ seeking police protection for two married petitioners living together, finding no specific threat and calling the petition an abuse of legal process.
A Division Bench held that the rigours of Section 45 of the PMLA cannot bar interim bail when an accused is medically unfit and has been in custody for over five years.
Allowing a wife's petition to shift divorce proceedings from Hisar to Sonepat, Justice Harkesh Manuja held that an offer to bear travel expenses is not an inflexible answer to a transfer application.
Justice Sumeet Goel held that concealing four prior FIRs in a sworn petition forfeit equitable relief, dismissing the anticipatory bail plea on suppression alone without examining merits.
Justice Deepinder Singh Nalwa set aside a Trial Court order dismissing a 72-year-old arthritis patient's application to record evidence via video conferencing, citing Rule 8.15 of the High Court's own Video Conferencing Rules.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed a criminal revision against conviction under Sections 279, 337 and 338 IPC, refusing sentence reduction to a school bus driver whose reckless driving overturned the bus and injured several children and teachers.
Justice Mandeep Pannu set aside concurrent convictions under Section 380 and 201 IPC, holding that a missing judicial file and the accused's presence in court raised suspicion but fell short of proof beyond reasonable doubt.
Justice Sumeet Goel rejected pre-arrest bail for an accused named in an FIR alleging cheating and human smuggling, holding custodial interrogation necessary to unravel the broader conspiracy.
Without any finding of connivance or wilful default by the sureties, the District Magistrate could not mechanically recover the entire Rs 2,00,000 surety bond amount, Justice Manisha Batra held.
Justice Vikas Suri upheld concurrent findings restoring possession of a Ludhiana house to the legatee under a registered Will, rejecting the intestate succession argument raised by the dispossessing defendants.
The High Court held that non-recovery of a railway ticket cannot alone deny compensation, and that a cancelled murder FIR cannot substitute for evidence of accidental death.
Justice Mandeep Pannu set aside a seven-year conviction under Section 304-B IPC, holding that the deceased's own dying declaration and a chain of circumstances created reasonable doubt.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court quashed HPSC's mid-process order fixing interview cut-offs for 189 teaching faculty posts, holding it an unlawful change to the rules of the game.
Justice Sumeet Goel granted interim bail to an undertrial held for over 18 months under the NDPS Act and directed Haryana's DGP to appear personally to explain why police witnesses repeatedly defy trial court warrants.
The court held that Rule 9 of the Punjab Civil Services (Punishment and Appeal) Rules, 1970 does not permit a fresh inquiry once an Inquiry Officer has submitted findings of exoneration.
The Punjab & Haryana High Court held that a paid-parking licence granted by the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh is a lease attracting stamp duty, but the Collector under Section 31 cannot impose penalty or direct recovery.
The Division Bench cited over four years of incarceration, the bail granted to main accused Baba Rampal, and completion of examination of 49 material witnesses to set aside the trial court's refusal.
