Articles

• Can the conviction of a senior cooperative credit society officer for alleged criminal breach of trust be quashed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court on grounds of missing corporate sanction and an insufficiently specific charge?
• Can the conviction of a senior municipal clerk be set aside on the ground that commission derived statements were recorded without the required District Magistrate approval?
• Can the conviction of a senior revenue officer be challenged in a revision petition before Punjab and Haryana High Court when the prosecution relies solely on the testimony of the official who delivered the alleged bribe and two clerks without any independent corroboration?
• Can the corporation argue that the magistrate’s warrant authorising seizure of its accounting ledgers for alleged fraud violates its right against self incrimination and property rights?
• Can the corporation seek a criminal revision in the Punjab and Haryana High Court to challenge the magistrate’s acquittal of the senior official who stored wheat without a licence?
• Can the criminal proceedings be quashed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court when the liquidator’s direction is claimed to be without a valid judicial sanction in a compulsory winding up?
• Can the definition of foreigner at the time of entry be challenged in a revision petition before the Punjab and Haryana High Court to quash an overstaying conviction?
• 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?