Articles

• Can a senior public servant challenge the allocation of his corruption case to a special economic offences tribunal and the imposed special fine in the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can a senior traffic official seek quashing of a prohibition conviction on the ground that the intoxicant was a medicinal syrup in a revision petition before the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can a small scale cultivator’s claim of private defence succeed when the fatal strike was delivered after the victim had fallen in an irrigation water dispute?
• Can a special court acquittal be challenged in the Punjab and Haryana High Court because the ordinance deems the court a court of session?
• Can a storage unit operator accused of possessing seized gold and diamonds prove lawful import and overturn a confiscation order on the ground that the burden shifting provision violates equality before law in the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can a writ of habeas corpus be obtained from the Punjab and Haryana High Court when the police note does not contain a magistrate’s signed remand order?
• Can an accused challenge the jurisdiction of a special court for a retrial ordered by the Punjab and Haryana High Court under a statutory exclusion of pending proceedings?
• 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?