“We will examine reports prior to passing the orders”- HC Judges on Punjab drug haul case
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in
The hearing of the Drug matter came up for hearing before the Punjab and Haryana High Court Bench of Justice A.G. Masih and Justice A.K. Verma and the application filed on behalf of the State of Punjab for examining the Status Reports filed in the Court in the year 2018 be taken up on priority basis and after examining the same, an order be passed to enable the prosecuting agency to proceed as per law. The Bench considered this plea raised on behalf of the State of Punjab by the Advocate General A.P.S. Deol and after hearing him for an hour, orally observed that the Bench is conscious of the fact that the matter is pending adjudication without any effective order being passed since 23d May, 2018 and, therefore, the Bench does not want to give an impression that we are sitting over the matter.
So considering the plea raised in the application, the Court has directed the Registrar Judicial to produce the Status Reports in sealed cover in Chamber and observed that we will examine the reports in these days prior to passing the order on 18.11.2021. The request of Satya Pal Jain, representing Union of India to file further Status Report with regard to the progress in the extradition of certain accused as well as the latest report by ED and other Central fixed for passing an Government Agencies be filed on 15.11.2021 i.e. before the order on 18.11.2021.
The Punjab government in its last hearing around two weeks ago told Punjab and Haryana high court that it has no objection to opening sealed-cover reports on drugs menace in the state while alleging involvement of influential persons by the State’s advocate general APS Deol .
October 26,2021
