Surender Sharma is a principal correspondent at Chandigarh. He covers Punjab and Haryana high court.
Articles by Surender Sharma
High court raps Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh for 'unequal' compensation to rape victims
The Punjab and Haryana high court has rapped the Punjab government for "disproportionate compensation" being awarded by the state authorities to rape victims.
Updated on Jun 07, 2015 08:36 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Chandigarh: HC raps PGI pharmacology dept head, terms him obstinate, egoist
Raising objections to the composition of a Punjab and Haryana high courtappointed committee to monitor the affairs of a department at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, proved dear to a department head.
Updated on Jun 05, 2015 09:29 AM IST
Newzstreet TV | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Review ban on Punjab lifter within a month, rules HC
The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) to take a decision within one month on an appeal filed by Commonwealth Games participant Meena Kumari against ban slapped on her by the sports body.
Updated on Jun 03, 2015 08:39 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Missing NRI girl's case: HC attaches Tarn Taran SSP's salary, summons home secretary
Dissatisfied over the probe in a missing NRI girl case, the Punjab and Haryana high court has ordered attachment of the Tarn Taran SSP's salary and summoned the Punjab home secretary on the next date of hearing.
Updated on May 31, 2015 09:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
High court impleads Solanki as party in inquiry against KU V-C
In an unusual move, the Punjab and Haryana high court has impleaded Kaptan Singh Solanki, chancellor of Kurukshetra University (KU), as a party in a writ petition filed by KU vice-chancellor Lt Gen DDS Sandhu (retd).
Updated on May 31, 2015 03:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
No relief for students admitted against rules by Rohtak institute
Check claims of the private colleges twice before taking admission. The Punjab and Haryana high court has refused relief to students who were admitted to a course by a private college of Rohtak in violation of rules.
Updated on May 23, 2015 09:25 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Secretaries' posts: HC asks Punjab agri board to re-cast merit list
The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the Punjab state agricultural marketing board to re-cast the merit list for secretaries' posts, advertised in April 2011. The single-judge bench of justice Deepak Sibal on Tuesday set aside the 2011 appointment of 54 secretaries and directed the board to prepare a fresh list after ignoring five additional marks awarded to candidates having a rural background. The entire exercise is to be completed within two months.
Updated on May 13, 2015 11:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Fatehabad top officials under HC scanner for parole to murder convict
The role of top district officials of Fatehabad in Haryana has come under the Punjab and Haryana high court scanner in a case where a declared habitual offender, who murdered a lawyer while on bail, was granted parole last month.
Updated on May 10, 2015 02:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Dowry death case: HC orders probe into discrepancies in translation of witnesses’ account
The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed a district sessions judge to probe the “discrepancies” in translation of witnesses’ accounts in a dowry death case reported in 2000.
Updated on Apr 20, 2015 09:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Punjab and Haryana HC declines abortion of 12-yr-old rape victim
The Punjab and Haryana high court has declined abortion prayer of a mother of a 12-year-old pregnant rape victim. The girl’s mother had moved the high court seeking directions to the authorities to abort the child since the victim was a minor. She had apprehended danger to the girl’s life if the pregnancy was continued.
Updated on Apr 04, 2015 11:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma
HC: Management change in aided institutions doesn’t affect pension
The Punjab and Haryana high court has ruled that the change of management in government-aided private institutions doesn’t affect pension and other benefits to any employee.
Updated on Apr 02, 2015 08:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Retrenchment order must entail compensation: High Court
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the Punjab government to restore the services of two Punjab Roadways employees who were retrenched in 1999 and not paid any compensation benefits.
Updated on Mar 29, 2015 12:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma
Govt hints at filing review petition on Jat quota
The Centre may file a review petition challenging the Supreme Court order of scrapping the reservation to Jats, a politically sensitive community in nine northern states. Union law minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Friday hinted at going in for a review petition before the Supreme Court.
Updated on Mar 28, 2015 09:19 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Apex court tells HC to form special bench for early disposal of case please
The Supreme Court has told the Punjab and Haryana high court to constitute a special bench for the early disposal of petitions related to the Rs 6,000 crore Bhola drug racket case. The apex court order came on a bunch of petitions filed by the Punjab government and some private parties, challenging various orders of the Punjab and Haryana high court.
Updated on Mar 25, 2015 09:50 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
HC: Think before marrying against parents’ wishes
The Punjab and Haryana high court has granted protection to many youngsters who ran away from their homes to get married; but the help comes with a piece of advice. On scores of petitions in the recent past, the high court bench of justice Rameshwar Singh Malik has observed that though the couples marrying against the wishes of their parents were entitled to protection “but it is also expected from them and other young citizens… that they would think twice before running away, and listen to their parents, who are not their enemies but real well wishers”.
Updated on Mar 22, 2015 08:57 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Irregularities in departmental promotion exam in state: HC
Large-scale irregularities have come to light in the departmental promotion examination conducted in Haryana in February last year.
Updated on Mar 06, 2015 10:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
HC raps Punjab for indecision on pay parity of junior engineers
The Punjab and Haryana high court has rapped the Punjab government for the indecision on pay parity being sought by junior engineers (JEs) working with the state government.
Updated on Mar 01, 2015 10:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
HC orders Haryana power discom to pay Rs 1.84 cr to 34 workmen
Almost after a two-decade-long fight, the 34 workers of Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (UHBVN) have been awarded Rs 1.84 crore as arrears.
Updated on Feb 22, 2015 07:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Punjab and Haryana HC quashes selection of 816 Haryana teachers
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday quashed the selection of 816 art and craft teachers selected by the Haryana Staff Selection Commission (HSSC) during the tenure of the Bhupinder Singh-led Congress government. The HC directed the government to make fresh selections within five months
Updated on Feb 20, 2015 11:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
State govt has right to fill or keep posts vacant: high court
The state government has the right to fill all vacant posts or keep them unfilled, the Punjab and Haryana high court has said, pointing out that it’s not the business of the court to issue direction to the government to fill posts
Updated on Feb 18, 2015 09:02 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
HC cuts powers of MPs, MLAs in local bodies
In an important judgment, the Punjab and Haryana high court has ruled that the MPs and MLAs who are nominated as members of local bodies in Haryana cannot be deemed as elected members of those bodies and thus cannot participate in no-confidence motions against the mayors, presidents and vice-presidents of the respective local bodies.
Updated on Feb 16, 2015 04:28 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
HC upholds tribunal order of making tractor
The Punjab and Haryana high court has dismissed an appeal in which the owner and driver of a tractor trolley had challenged the motor accidents claims tribunal, Ambala, order of making the two liable for paying a compensation of Rs 5.81 lakh to the family of a person who had died in a road accident.
Updated on Feb 14, 2015 08:37 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Officer faces heat as HC orders fresh probe into junior’s death
The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the Haryana director general of police (DGP) to form a special investigation team (SIT) to re-probe a case involving Sanjiv Chaturvedi, a Haryana-cadre Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer, and a senior cop over a forest range officer’s death in 2009.
Updated on Feb 12, 2015 01:03 PM IST
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Haryana IFS officer Chaturvedi faces heat as HC orders re-probe into junior’s death
The Punjab and Haryana high court has directed the Haryana director general of police (DGP) to form a special investigation team (SIT) to re-probe a case involving Sanjiv Chaturvedi, a Haryana-cadre Indian Forest Service (IFS) officer, and a senior cop over a forest range officer’s death in 2009.
Updated on Feb 12, 2015 12:43 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
HC extends stay on transfer of ED officer who questioned Majithia
The Punjab and Haryana high court has extended the stay on the transfer of key Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer Niranjan Singh from Jalandhar to Kolkata, even as the premier investigating agency argued that he was transferred keeping in view “his excellent track record” for an “important assignment”.
Updated on Feb 02, 2015 10:29 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
PPS seniority row: HC judge passes strictures on colleague who stayed promotions
The regular bench of justice Mahesh Grover, hearing the case of Punjab Police Service (PPS) officers’ promotions to the Indian Police Service (IPS) cadre, has passed strictures against justice Kuldeep Singh, who heard the case while presiding over a vacation bench in December last year.
Updated on Jan 23, 2015 09:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
Govt gets 6-week time to ensure financial aid
The Punjab and Haryana high court has given six weeks’ time to the Haryana government to ensure regular financial assistance to the family members of all the deceased government employees.
Updated on Jan 18, 2015 03:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
HC restrains Haryana from issuing CLU, licences in NCR
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday restrained the Haryana government from issuing licences and change of land use (CLU) permissions to builders and others in the area falling under the national capital region within Haryana.
Updated on Jan 18, 2015 12:15 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
HC restrains Haryana from issuing CLU, licences in NCR
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Friday restrained the Haryana government from issuing licences and change of land use (CLU) permissions to builders and others in the area falling under the national capital region within Haryana.
Updated on Jan 16, 2015 11:13 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh
PCS-2013 exam: PPSC to redraw Mains merit list
Punjab Public Service Commission will have to redraw the merit list prepared by it in the Punjab Civil Services (executive) and allied services examination-2013 as the Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday allowed the petition challenging the methodology adopted for preparing the merit list.
Updated on Jan 08, 2015 09:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Surender Sharma, Chandigarh