‘In curiosity of establishment’, excessive court docket Chief Justice withdraws case from decide after getting complaints | India Information – Instances of India


CHANDIGARH: The Chief Justice (CJ) of Punjab and Haryana excessive court docket has withdrawn a case from its decide “within the curiosity of the establishment” and to “defend the repute” of the decide after receiving “oral and written” complaints, in accordance with an order from the CJ.The court docket additionally asserted that the facility of the Chief Justice to allocate a specific case to any specific bench or withdraw a specific case from any specific bench and allocate the identical to another decide is “untrammelled and immune from judicial scrutiny”.The order got here after eminent lawyer Mukul Rohtagi, the counsel for the petitioner Roop Bansal, who had sought the quashing of an FIR registered towards him by the Haryana Anti-Corruption Bureau underneath the Prevention of Corruption Act in Panchkula on April 17, had objected to the withdrawal of the case. The petition was heard by Justice Mahabir Singh Sindhu who reserved the judgement on Might 2.Nonetheless, Chief Justice Sheel Nagu withdrew the case from Justice Sindhu after receiving some “oral and written” complaints and constituted one other bench comprising himself and listed the matter on Might 12, to “draw curtains to the controversy and save the establishment and the involved decide from any additional embarrassment”. Rohtagi objected to withdrawal of the case, arguing that the matter which is “heard and reserved” by a bench holding roster, can’t be withdrawn from that roster to be heard by another single bench together with that of Chief Justice. “The rationale for withdrawing this case from the Single Bench Felony Roster of Justice Mahabir Singh Sindhu, was the receipt of criticism, (oral and written), which impelled the Chief Justice to requisition the document of this case from the mentioned Single Bench and represent one other Single Bench comprising of Chief Justice on Might 12 to provide quietus to the criticism, draw curtains to the controversy and save the establishment and the involved Choose from any additional embarrassment by deciding the case as expeditiously as doable,” mentioned the order which was handed on Friday.