HC Dismisses Bathinda Cops' Plea for Quashing Criminal Proceedings

The Punjab and Haryana high court on July 1 vacated a stay order granted to a petition filed by five Bathinda police personnel in a case of an alleged culpable homicide.

- Vishal Joshi

BATHINDA:

After hearing a petition by the accused Punjab police inspector Navpreet Singh and others, Justice Sanjay Vashisht stated that the court "does not find any irregularity in the order passed by the magistrate (of Bathinda district), and, therefore, observe that the impugned order has been passed perfectly as per law."

After hearing the petition early this year, Justice Vashisht on April 5 had passed an interim stay order stating, "further proceedings by the judicial magistrate first class-cum (JMIC)- illaqa magistrate, Bathinda, shall be kept in abeyance, till pronouncement of the order in the petition by this court."

After dismissing the petition yesterday, Justice Vashisht stated, "It is held that there is no infirmity in the impugned (summon orders by the Bathinda court to the accused cops to face a trial) order dated February 18 this year which appears to have been passed in accordance with the provisions of the BNSS, 2023."