Articles

• Can an accused charged with selling a staple commodity above the price ceiling obtain a quashing of the conviction in the Punjab and Haryana High Court on the ground that the temporary price control law was invalidly extended after the Constitution commenced?
• Can an accused in an illegal timber smuggling case challenge a Special Anti Smuggling Tribunal that denies bail and limits the trial to English without any adjournments before the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can an accused who diverted merchandise abroad challenge the state sanction on the ground that he was not an Indian citizen at the material time?
• Can an amendment that prolongs an existing preventive detention order without a new advisory board hearing violate the constitutional guarantee of personal liberty?
• Can an assignment of a shop lease be treated as relinquishment under the rent control law?
• Can an exculpatory statement describing a natural death be used as a confession to sustain a conviction for concealment of a death in a revision petition before the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can an uncorroborated dying declaration and a misapplied common intention doctrine be used to overturn a murder conviction through a revision petition before the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can detainees whose detention order does not disclose any grounds challenge its legality in the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can the Punjab and Haryana High Court set aside a Sessions Court acquittal in a mob murder case when the reliability of five eyewitnesses is contested and two witnesses were unavailable?
• Can the State file an appeal against the Sessions Court’s acquittal of a seasonal laborer accused of giving a poisonous mixture to two children at a local fair before the Punjab and Haryana High Court?