IN an unusual development in the Punjab & Haryana High Court, shortly following Chief Justice Sheel Nagu’s decision to withdraw a case from the bench of Justice Mahabir Singh Sindhu following a written and oral complaint pertaining to ‘bench-hunting’, an advocate explicitly requested his petition to be transferred to Justice Sindhu’s bench.
The matter was listed before the bench of Justice Manjari Nehru Kaul of the Punjab & Haryana High Court. On May 28, Justice Kaul recorded this unusual submission by Bimal Maini, the advocate for the petitioner, in her order.
Justice Kaul has now sent the matter to Chief Justice Nagu for seeking his orders regarding the listing of the case.
