The HC's move to grant bail follows on the heels of the Supreme Court's recent direction that all pending trials, appeals and proceedings with respect to the charge framed under Section 124-A of IPC in the country be kept in abeyance.
As per Chahar, Shiv Kumar had issued him a cheque of Rs 3.50 lakh on December 1, 2015 against a similar amount that the latter had borrowed from him earlier. When Chahar presented the cheque at the bank, it was dishonoured with the remarks “insufficient funds”.
The court observed that "...a spouse staying away by sending vulgar and defamatory letters or notices or filing complaints containing indecent allegations or by initiating (a) number of judicial proceedings can make the life of (the) other spouse miserable”.
The police had booked Khemka and three retired employees of the Haryana State Warehouse Corporation on April 20 following alleged irregularities in recruitment.
Rajesh Kumar Arora (60) and his wife Sneh Arora (52) stated in their complaint that on September 1, 2016, their daughter, Disha Arora, suffered from fever and remained under treatment locally till September 4, 2016.
Hearing the matter, the division bench of Justice Augustine George Masih and Justice Sandeep Moudgil also asked that the latest status of the extradition process, which has been initiated of overseas persons, be also submitted to the court.
This comes a day after an operation to arrest him pitted Punjab Police against their counterparts in Delhi and Haryana and led to a political slugfest between the BJP and AAP.
The Punjab government had filed a petition in court Friday after its police personnel who were bringing Bagga from Delhi to Mohali were allegedly stopped by Haryana Police in Kurukshetra.
As a Punjab Police team took Bagga away, and his father filed a complaint at the Janakpuri police station alleging he had been abducted, the Delhi Police filed an FIR and its inspector Antariksh approached the Dwarka court for a search warrant.
On Friday afternoon, the Punjab government had filed a petition in court after its police personnel who were bringing Bagga from Delhi to Mohali were stopped by Haryana Police in Kurukshetra.
The bench criticized the “apathetic and indifferent” approach adopted by the HSSC and warned it to be careful in future. The commission had blamed “software malfunction” for the errors in evaluation.
Punjab and Haryana High court Monday stayed the arrest of former AAP leader Kumar Vishwas in a case registered against him in Punjab's Rupnagar over alleged "inflammatory statements" against Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
While disposing her plea, the single bench had directed the Police Commissioner, Amritsar to decide her representation within a period of wight weeks, as her application with similar grievance was pending before the Punjab Police.
Coming down heavily on the petitioner, the Punjab and Haryana HC said that “the demand for security is more to display it as an authority of symbol and to flaunt his status as a VIP”.
The order was made by the Bench of Raj Shekhar Attri (President), Padma Panday (Member) and Rajesh K Arya (Member), while hearing the four appeals of Ashok Kumar Prajapat of Hisar, who had complained that a driver of a Haryana Transport was smoking when he was travelling in it.
The bench of Justice Fateh Deep Singh said, “In this modern era, there is a clamour for equity of sexes and merely because the applicant is a wife, the court should not be swayed by emotions tilting towards fairer sex.”
As per rules of service, the family pension was granted to his widow, but she later got re-married in 2008. The petitioner argued that she thereafter became the lone survivor of the family and claimant for the grant of family pension.
However, with all the benches of the Punjab and Haryana High Court now functioning through physical mode from March 28, the pendency of cases here, which has reached 4,49,943, is expected to come down.
A bench of Justice Harsimran Singh Sethi passed the order while hearing the petition of Dharmo Devi whose husband Pratap Singh of 9th Batallion, CRPF, died in the 1962 war.
The Bench of Justice Manoj Bajaj, which was hearing the matter, held, “The averments contained in the petition lack the material particulars and do not reveal the manner and mode of alleged threat extended to the petitioners.”