Nominal Index [Citations 311 - 317]Col. Sukhwinder Singh Dhillon v. State of Punjab 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 311CHIRAG KUMAR SARDANA v. STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 312Manish Kumar v. Directorate General, Goods & Service Tax Intelligence, Zonal Unit, Ludhiana 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 313RAVNEET KAUR v. PUNJAB & HARYANA HIGH COURT, CHANDIGARH AND ANOTHER 2025 LiveLaw (PH)...
Nominal Index [Citations 311 - 317]
Col. Sukhwinder Singh Dhillon v. State of Punjab 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 311
CHIRAG KUMAR SARDANA v. STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 312
Manish Kumar v. Directorate General, Goods & Service Tax Intelligence, Zonal Unit, Ludhiana 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 313
RAVNEET KAUR v. PUNJAB & HARYANA HIGH COURT, CHANDIGARH AND ANOTHER 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 314
Harcharan Singh vs. State of Punjab 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 315
Payal Chaudhary v. KAP Sinha IAS and others 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 316
Harpreet Kaur v. State of Punjab and Others 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 317
Reports
Title: Col. Sukhwinder Singh Dhillon v. State of Punjab
Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 311
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has strongly criticized a trial court for showing “unreasonable leniency” in a cyber fraud case, emphasizing that cases involving senior citizens deserve urgent and prioritized handling.
Title: CHIRAG KUMAR SARDANA v. STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER
Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 312
The Punjab & Haryana High Court underscored the delicate balance between justice and compassion by permitting a sportsman facing fraud allegations to travel abroad for a shooting camp.
Chirag Kumar Sardana is accused in a Fraud and Arms Act case. His passport was released by the Sessions Court only for a limited period, which prevented him from participating in international shooting camps at Europe and USA.
Title: Manish Kumar v. Directorate General, Goods & Service Tax Intelligence, Zonal Unit, Ludhiana
Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 313
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has expressed concern over the sluggish pace of trials and the lack of convictions in Goods and Services Tax (GST) evasion cases and flagged abrupt arrests of accused by the authorities, "driven by some inexplicable urgency rather than necessity."
The Court granted bail in an alleged case involving defrauding the state exchequer of Rs. 107 crore, as input tax credit by generating fake invoices from fake firms.
No Power To Transfer Case From One High Court To Another: Punjab & Haryana High Court
Title: RAVNEET KAUR v. PUNJAB & HARYANA HIGH COURT, CHANDIGARH AND ANOTHER.
Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 314
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has held that it does not have power to transfer a case from one High Court to another.
Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry said, "So far as the prayer of transferring the aforesaid three cases to any other High Court is concerned, the same cannot be granted since this Court is not vested with any such power; the petitioner for this purpose is free to approach the appropriate Forum."
Harcharan Singh vs. State of Punjab
Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 315
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has clarified that an application for suspension of sentence filed along with criminal revision petition challenging conviction in a criminal case is maintainable before the High Court, even if the convict has not surrendered post-conviction.
Justice Sumeet Goel said, "A criminal revision petition against the judgments of conviction (as also an application for suspension of sentence, etc.) is maintainable before this High Court, without the petitioner-accused having surrendered or being in custody, in the absence of any rule in the extant Punjab and Haryana High Court Rules/Orders proscribing such maintainability."
Title: Payal Chaudhary v. KAP Sinha IAS and others
Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 316
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has imposed a cost of Rs. 50,000 on a litigant for engaging in forum shopping and filing a meritless contempt petition in a civil dispute
The development comes in a contempt plea alleging that the authorities have disobeyed Supreme Court's ruling in Rajeeb Kalita Vs. Union of India and others by disconnecting the water supply of the petitioner.
Denying Maternity Leave To Contractual Employee Violates Article 14: Punjab & Haryana High Court
Title: Harpreet Kaur v. State of Punjab and Others
Citation: 2025 LiveLaw (PH) 317
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has said that denying maternity leave to a contractual employee under the Maternity Benefit Act would amount to discrimination on grounds of nature of their employment and thereby violates Article 14 of the Constitution which guarantees equal protection of law.
Other Developments
High Court Stays Punjab Land Pooling Policy, Seeks Safeguards For Farmers, Artisans
Title: GURDEEP SINGH GILL VS STATE OF PUNJAB AND ANOTHER
The Punjab & Haryana High Court stayed the controversial 'Punjab Land Pooling Policy' after the Government refused to withdraw it, till the next hearing (September 10).
Punjab & Haryana Bar Council Summons 16 Advocates, Including Seniors, Over Bench Hunting Allegations
In a significant development, the Punjab and Haryana Bar Council has taken cognisance of alleged "bench hunting" tactics employed in the Roop Bansal case.
Punjab & Haryana Bar Council Launches Inquiry Into Alleged Bench Hunting At High Court
The Punjab & Haryana Bar Council has launched an inquiry into serious allegations of bench hunting by lawyers at the Punjab and Haryana High Court
In an office order, the Chairman of the State Bar Council, Rakesh Gupta, stated that members of the Bar Council had pointed out that some advocates of the Punjab & Haryana High Court, in order to obtain favourable orders from a particular bench or to avoid appearing before that bench, are engaging in "bench hunting."
Title: Naman Sharma v. State Of Haryana
Calling the plea "untenable in law," the Punjab & Haryana High Court has dismissed with ₹5,000 cost a petition filed by a student seeking admission despite missing the entrance test.
Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Yashvir Singh Rathod said, "the prayer is untenable in law...by no stretch of imagination that can be granted."
'Provide Status Of Pending Cases Against MP/MLAs': Punjab & Haryana High Court Tells District Judges
Title: COURT ON ITS OWN MOTION (IN RE: DESIGNATED COURTS FOR MP'S/MLA'S) V/S STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS
The Punjab & Haryana High Court has directed District & Sessions Judges across Punjab, Haryana, and the Union Territory of Chandigarh to furnish a status updates on all pending criminal cases involving sitting and former MPs and MLAs.
Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Yashvir Singh Rathod was hearing a suo moto cognizance, to monitor the early disposal of pending criminal cases against Members of Parliament and Members of Legislative Assemblies, following the Supreme Court directions issued in 2023.
Title: Vinod Dhattewal and others v. Union of India and others
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has sought documents of the environmental clearance granted to The Lalit Hotel located in the IT Park area of Chandigarh, as the Union Territory (UT) Administration opposed the construction of the new High Court building in the same vicinity.
Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry said, "Documentary proof of environmental objections qua IT Park area."