CHANDIGARH: Taking serious notice of the callous approach adopted by some persons to the summons issued by the High Court calling for the personal presence, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, comprising Justice Amarjeet Chaudhary and Justice V.S. Aggarwal issued bail able warrants, against AST Lakhwinder Singh of the Punjab Police, earlier posted at Police Station, Kotwali City, Amritsar.
The orders were passed to secure the presence of the Lakhwinder Singh in the court. ‘One Mohun Kaur of Chandigarh had filed a petition in the High Court that her husband, Gurbachan Singh Bajwa had been illegally taken into custody by a police party headed by ASI Lakhwinder Singh. The warrant officer appointed by the High Court found Bajwa in the police station and got him released. In the affidavit filed before the High Court Lakhwinder Singh stated that Bajwa was never taken into custody ‘but had come to the police station himself. Justice Vijay Kumar Jhanji, while hearing the matter, was prima fascia ‘of the view that Lakhwinder Singh had filed a false affidavit in the court and was accordingly liable to be dealt with for committing contempt of court. The matter had therefore been referred to the Division Bench.
One Bhupinder Singh of Ambala, by way of a writ petition, has challenged the selection list of the Subordinate Service Selection Board, Haryana, recommending the candidates to the Education Department for the post of PTI (male).
It was submitted that the Subordinate Selection Board, Haryana, had advertised 103 post of PTIs (male) and 83 post of PTI (females), and the petitioner had applied for one of the posts. Candidates with lower percentage were selected whereas persons with higher percentage of marks had been ignored. No criteria of selection was disclosed, it was alleged. After hearing the counsel for the petitioner, the Bench comprising Justice N.G. Jain and Justice S.S. Sudhalkar issued notice of motion for October 16, 1995 and ordered that the appointment of any male shall be subjected to the result of the writ petition.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 13, 1995
