Articles

• Can a senior editor detained under a preventive detention order without stated grounds and without a right to be heard obtain relief through a writ of habeas corpus in the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can a senior government official detained under preventive detention without disclosure of grounds obtain relief through a writ of habeas corpus in the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can a senior municipal officer prove that a cash handover was a charitable contribution and obtain a writ of quashing in Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can a senior municipal officer whose trial court refused to summon material defence witnesses and lacked required sanction obtain a quashing order from the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can a senior police officer obtain a writ of certiorari from the Punjab and Haryana High Court to quash a dismissal that was ordered without a magisterial inquiry and without case registration?
• Can a senior procurement officer appeal a conviction for accepting wheat and cash on the ground that he was not functionally subordinate to the Director General?
• Can a senior villager be convicted for criminal force against a public servant after a Sessions Court acquitted him based on evidence of a bag being seized and a constable being pushed?
• Can a sitting legislator challenge a preventive detention order and its venue change in the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can a Sub Divisional Magistrate successfully challenge a criminal contempt conviction by arguing lack of knowledge of an unauthenticated stay order in a revision petition before the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can a tenant who threw a wrench and caused a superficial scratch challenge the magistrate’s conviction through a criminal revision in the Punjab and Haryana High Court?