Articles

• Can the denial of access to confidential material and lack of a hearing render a preventive detention continuation order ultra vires?
• Can the director of a mutual fund successfully argue before the Punjab and Haryana High Court that diverting the fund’s assets to settle an insurance company’s debts is a separate offence from a prior share acquisition conviction?
• Can the dismissal of a senior civil servant after a departmental enquiry be treated as punishment to bar a subsequent criminal prosecution?
• Can the dismissal of an alibi showing the accused was at a government training program and the lack of ballistic proof be grounds for a revision petition in the Chandigarh High Court?
• Can the district judge order forfeiture of attached assets when the tribunal’s judgment records the amount but no separate finding was made under the statutory clause?
• Can the district magistrate’s pardon be contested in a revision petition before the Punjab and Haryana High Court when the case was tried before a special judge?
• Can the editor obtain discharge of a contempt rule from the Punjab and Haryana High Court after publishing an editorial alleging political interference and filing an unconditional apology?
• Can the election of a municipal candidate be restored by filing an election petition that argues the pamphlet’s references to a mountain spirit are cultural rather than a prohibited religious appeal before the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can the employee’s claim that the municipal sanction was not addressed to them and that the trial magistrate lacked jurisdiction be reviewed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can the engineer claim that a private complaint filed by a citizen is barred and that prosecution requires central government sanction in a criminal revision before the Punjab and Haryana High Court?