Pertinently, certain protections meant for certain categories of public servants and the armed forces were specifically extended to officers of the Haryana police by a 1980 State government notification.
The single judge bench of Justice Harpreet Singh Brar, dismissed the bail plea of Rashpal Singh, a patwari, employed in the Punjab's department of revenue.
The high court, while disposing of a bunch of 193 pleas, also ordered the states of Punjab and Haryana and the Union Territory of Chandigarh to constitute committees chaired by the deputy commissioners of respective districts to determine such compensation.
The bench of Justice Manjari Nehru Kaul observed, “Upon careful scrutiny, this Court finds no evidence of any distortion or misrepresentation in the incident relating to the life of Sant Kabir Das."
A Military Engineer Services contractor who allegedly got an extortion call from gangster Lawrence Bishnoi and his associate had moved the high court to restore the security protection provided to him.