A single Punjab and Haryana High Court bench of Justice Arun Kumar Tyagi passed the order to grant protection to a 21 year old girl and 19 year old boy while hearing a Criminal Writ Petition filed by Pushpa Devi and Another.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked for an explanation from the Sessions Judge, Sirsa as to how did he entertain and decide petition for regular bail when a similar petition was pending before the Court.
The Supreme Court today refused to entertain a plea of a 26-year-old man seeking the quashing of an attempt to murder case against him, filed by his father of attempting to shoot him, his wife, and his daughter.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the authorities to conduct a second post-mortem of the body of slain gangster Jaipal Singh Bhullar who was allegedly killed in a staged fake encounter and was subjected to grievous torture in custody after the firm directions of the Apex Court.
The court in its order observed that, “Agitation has thrown up an extraordinary situation, and more so in the states of Punjab and Haryana. It is not simply a law and order problem, and courts are battling to reconcile the competing rights and interests of all the stakeholders.”
On June 17, the Punjab and Haryana High Court had dismissed a petition filed by Bhullar's father seeking directions to the state of Punjab to conduct a second autopsy of his son's body either at PGIMER or AIIMS, Delhi.
The high court observed that the aggrieved persons can avail alternative remedy, “but a large number of petitions land in the lap of this court as according to writ petitions alternative remedy is less felicitous.”
“The concept of a live-in relationship may not be acceptable to all, but it cannot be said that such a relationship is an illegal one or that living together without the sanctity of marriage constitutes an offence.”