It’s back to learning for judicial officers of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh

Saurabh Malik

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 28

It is back to learning for judicial officers of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh. Noticing that some of the verdicts passed by the judicial officers in the subordinate courts were deficient in the art of writing orders, the Punjab and Haryana HC has asked the Chandigarh Judicial Academy director to look into the matter. He has been asked to educate the judicial officers.

The directions by Justice Arvind Singh Sangwan came on a petition filed by Subhash Chand against Haryana and another respondent for cancellation of bail to an accused in a cheating case registered on June 30 at Pataudi police station.

The counsel for the petitioner, Virendra Rana, argued that the FIR was registered on the premise that the description of the property was altered by changing a page of the agreement to sell after it was entered into between the petitioner and respondent-accused. A house, which was the only residence of the petitioner, was included in the same.

The counsel alleged that the petitioner, along with the purchaser, signed all pages. But in the certified copy, only page number one and three were signed by the him. His signatures were not there on page number two, demonstrating that a fraud had been played.

It was also submitted that the order passed by the Gurugram Additional Sessions Judge in the matter was totally non-speaking. In the entire order, not even a single line referred to the contents of the FIR. He added it was the basic requirement for forming an opinion regarding the grant of anticipatory bail to the accused.