CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has advised the Bar Association of the High Court to seek administrative solution to the problem of intelligence sleuths picketing the courts, and Passing on vital information to the State defeating the purpose of litigations, especially the habeas corpus petitions, Justice A.P. Chowdhury and Justice Swatantra Kumar, while disposing of a petition filed by the association through counsel R.S. Bains, said the Chief Justice of the High Court was the competent authority to regulate or restrict the entry of the Cops in the court complex.
Bains had contended that intelligence sleuths and other policemen not only pass on vital court decisions to the state, but also indulge in abductions. In a number of cases, it was found that even before the warrant officer could reach the place of illegal detention, the police succeeded in changing their place of confinement.
The petition had suggested that each and every police officer visiting the court complex should make an entry at the main gate. The office of the Advocate Generals of Punjab and Haryana should also have prior information about the presence of the cops in the court complex.
The judges, however, said that the matter should be placed before the Chief Justice for an administrative action.
Article extracted from this publication >> January 6, 1995
