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Punjab & Haryana HC Dismisses Diploma Student's Plea to Relax PSPCL Cut-Off Date for Junior Engineer Recruitment
A diploma student who had one exam pending challenged PSPCL's cut-off date for its Junior Engineer recruitment; the High Court upheld the condition as constitutionally valid.
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Punjab and Haryana HC Orders Release of Confiscated Truck on Financial Bonds Pending NDPS Appeal
The Punjab and Haryana High Court directed interim release of a truck confiscated under the NDPS Act, holding that no statutory bar prevents such relief and that prolonged parking destroys the vehicle's value.
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Punjab & Haryana HC Drops Contempt Against Newspapers That Reported Kotkapura FIR Transfer Before Judgment Was Signed
A Division Bench held that news reports of the Kotkapura FIR trial transfer were fair and accurate under Section 4 of the Contempt of Courts Act, 1971, because the judgment had already been pronounced in open court.
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Punjab Excise FIR: Punjab and Haryana HC Sets Aside Sessions Court Order Withdrawing Interim Anticipatory Bail, Holds Custodial Interrogation Cannot Be Used to Extract Information by Coercion
Justice Sanjay Vashisth exercised revisional jurisdiction to restore anticipatory bail to Karam Singh after the Sessions Court withdrew interim protection solely on the investigating officer's plea for custodial interrogation.
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Punjab & Haryana HC Modifies Charge Order: Drops Section 325 IPC, Substitutes Section 330, Rejects Bid to Add Section 307
Justice Sumeet Goel modified a Gurugram sessions court charge order in a hospital-assault case, replacing Section 325 with Section 330 IPC and rejecting the complainant's attempt to add attempt-to-murder charges.
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Punjab and Haryana HC Grants Bail to UAPA Accused After Nearly Five Years in Custody, Reframes Appeal Under NIA Act
A Division Bench corrected the wrong statutory provision invoked by the accused, treated the appeal under Section 21(4) NIA, and granted bail citing prolonged pre-trial custody and weak direct evidence.
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Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra Appointed to Perform Duties of Chief Justice, Punjab & Haryana HC
The President has directed Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra to discharge Chief Justice duties at the Punjab and Haryana High Court after Justice Sheel Nagu's elevation to the Supreme Court.
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Punjab & Haryana HC Halts Admission of Paid Senior Citizens to Chandigarh Group Home, Orders Three-Month Awareness Drive for Mental Illness Patients
The Division Bench directed U.T. Chandigarh to run a three-month awareness campaign and keep a two-month window open for mental illness patients before admitting paid senior citizens to Group Home, Sector 31-C.
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Punjab & Haryana HC Orders Regularisation of NHM Contractual Workers With Over Ten Years of Service
Justice Sandeep Moudgil held that decade-long NHM contractual workers are State employees and directed regularisation within eight weeks, rejecting financial constraint and co-terminus project defences.
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Punjab and Haryana HC Refuses Anticipatory Bail to UHBVNL Engineer Accused of Communal Remarks, Cites Societal Impact and Nascent Investigation
Justice Sumeet Goel dismissed a second anticipatory bail petition by a Superintending Engineer booked under Section 196(1) BNS for allegedly making derogatory remarks against a community in a viral video.
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Punjab & Haryana High Court Weekly Round-Up: May 17 to 23, 2026
