Articles

• Can the Punjab and Haryana High Court validly extend the Vexious Litigation Prevention Act to a district that was outside the original Presidency town?
• Can the registration of FIRs by a CID officer on a chief minister’s instruction be challenged as a procedural defect in a writ petition?
• Can the repeal of the Temporary Health Supplies Act invalidate the licence required control order on a herbal leaf consignment, making a revision before the Punjab and Haryana High Court the proper remedy?
• Can the soliloquy confession and circumstantial evidence be successfully contested in an appeal before Punjab and Haryana High Court to set aside a murder conviction and death penalty?
• Can the State appeal the acquittal of three accused in a murder case by asserting that the circumstantial evidence establishes an irresistible presumption of guilt before the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can the State be punished for contempt after it issued a land reform notification that violated an injunction?
• Can the State challenge a murder acquittal on the ground that the insanity defence was not proved at the material time in the Punjab and Haryana High Court?
• Can the State challenge the High Court’s acquittal of a senior municipal accountant and two clerks on the basis of alleged misjoinder and the validity of an approver’s pardon?
• Can the State successfully appeal an acquittal of a senior postal employee accused of stealing an insured parcel when the trial court dismissed handwritten notes as confessions?
• Can the substitution of a charge not mentioned in the charge sheet be challenged through a revision petition before the Punjab and Haryana High Court?