Judges on leave ludhiana

Munish Singal joined as the new district and sessions judge of the Ludhiana sessions division on Friday. He replaced Gurbir Singh, who has been transferred to Chandigarh, after a completing tenure of around four years. District and sessions judge Muniesh Singal being welcomed in Ludhiana on Friday. (HT Photo) Before this, Singal was working as the sessions judge in Moga. Earlier, he had served as additional sessions judge in Ludhiana twice. He also worked as member secretary of State Legal Services Authority and played an active role in organising lok adalats and legal literacy campaigns across the state. Meanwhile, seven newly-transferred additional sessions judges (ADJ) including Shatin Goyal, Ravdeep Singh Hundal, Bishan Saroop, Ajit Atri, Raj Kumar Garg, Monika Goyal, Manjinder and Vijay Kumar also took charge. A deputation, comprising District Bar Association president Gurkirpal Singh Gill, secretary Gagandeep Singh Saini and vice-president Parvinder Singh Pari, met Singal and assured full cooperation in administration of justice.

Tribune News Service Ludhiana, August 24 With an aim to make the functioning of Jail better and direct interaction with inmates and undertrials, District and Sessions Judge Gurbir Singh along with 20 other judges carried a surprise check at the Central Jail, Ludhiana, on Friday. The surprise check was organized under the “Connect to Serve” campaign. The Sessions Judge was also accompanied by the District Legal Services Authority (DLSA) Secretary-cum-Chief Judicial Magistrate, Dr Gurpreet Kaur, several other judges, Jail Superintendent SS Boparai, besides others. It is pertinent to mention that this is for the first time in the state that more than 20 judges have carried a surprise check of a jail. Gurbir said during the surprise check, all judges interacted with 3,350 inmates and undertrials and took their feedback on the problems faced by them. He said the judges would prepare a detailed report, which would be discussed later.

Saurabh Malik Tribune News Service Chandigarh, January 4 The Punjab and Haryana High Court is staring at a crisis as 16 of its judges are retiring in the next two years. The High Court collegium had last met almost three years back for recommending the names of sessions judges for elevation and nearly one-and-a-half years back for advocates. The HC will reopen on Wednesday after a short winter break with a shortage of 36 judges and a pendency of over 4,47,890 cases. Collegium suggested elevation of judicial officers in ’19 Available information suggests that the last time the collegium recommended the names of judicial officers for elevation as High Court judges was on March 14, 2019. As many as seven judicial officers were recommended for elevation by the then Chief Justice in consultation with his two senior colleagues. The Supreme Court collegium finally recommended the elevation of six judicial officers in September 2019 and they were administered the oath in November 2019. It is believed that at least six senior District and Sessions Judges in Haryana have retired since the collegium last finalised and forwarded the names for elevation. The number is believed to be almost the same in Punjab. Even if the names are finalised now for elevation, it will take a long time for the completion of process. A testimony to this effect is provided by the fact that five advocates recommended for elevation in August 2020 were administered oath as the High Court judges only in Octobe...

Judges, lawyers, teachers and journalists can now get the coronavirus shot in Punjab's Ludhiana, the district administration said on Monday, widening the vaccination drive to sections not yet cleared by the central government. The decision will also cover workers of banks, NGOs, cooperative societies and food grain societies. The Central government today informed the Supreme Court that prioritising Covid-19 vaccination based on profession will be discriminatory and not in national interest. The Centre was responding to notice based on a public interest litigation (PIL) which wanted judges, lawyers, and other members of legal fraternity be given priority in the inoculati... The Delhi High Court on Wednesday said prima facie there is weight in the claim of the Bar Council of Delhi (BCD) to declare all people associated with the judicial functioning, including judges, court staff and lawyers as "frontline workers" so that they could receive COVID-19 vaccination on priority and without limitations of their age or physica...

Legal Correspondent Ludhiana, April 27 The Punjab and Haryana High Court has transferred 10 Additional District and Sessions Judges, including three Family Court Judges, in general transfers from Ludhiana. Principal Judge, Family Court, Ajaib Singh has been transferred to Kapurthala and he would be replaced by Additional District and Sessions Judge Neelam Arora, Additional Principal Judge, Family Court, Rakesh Sharma has been transferred to Tarn Taran and he will be replaced by ADJ Rajwinder Singh, Additional Principal Judge Rakesh Kumar-1 has been transferred to Kapurthala and he will be replaced by ADJ Dr Mandip Mittal. ADJ Lukhvinder Kaur Duggal has been transferred to Patiala and she would be replaced by ADJ Harbans Singh Lekhi, ADJ KK Jain has been transferred to Jalandhar and he would be replaced by ADJ Amarjit Singh, ADJ Muneesh Arora has been transferred to Patiala and he would be replaced by ADJ Manoj Kumar Singla, ADJ Rashmi Sharma has been transferred to Jalandhar and she would be replaced by ADJ Shiv Mohan Garg, ADJ Jarnail Singh has been transferred to Ferozepur and he would be replaced by ADJ Ashok Kapoor, ADJ Kulbhushan Kumar has been transferred to Pathankot and he would be replaced by ADJ Khem Karan Goyal and ADJ Ashish Abrol has been transferred to Bathinda and he would be replaced by ADJ Ravi Inder Kaur.

Ambedkar Nagar Judicial Officers in Ambedkar Nagar-Civil/District Courts SL NAME DESIGNATION 1. District & Sessions Judge 2. Addl. District & Sessions Judge 3. A.D.J. (POCSO) 4. Spl. J. (SC/ST, Pev.of Atroci Act) 5. Addl. District & Sessions Judge 6. Addl. District & Sessions Judge , MP/MLA 7. Addl. District & Sessions Judge , secy., DLSA 8. A.D.J. (FTC) 9. A.D.J. (FTC) 10. Chief Judicial Magistrate , J.M. (Economic Offences) , MP/MLA 11. Civil Judge (Senior Div.) 12. Civil Judge (Senior Div.)(FTC) 13. Civil Judge (Junior Div.) , J.M. (Economic Offences) (At Tanda(Ambedkar N.at Akb)) 14. Civil Judge (Junior Div.) 15. Judicial Magistrate 16. Addl. Civil Judge (Junior Div.) 17. Addl. Civil Judge (Junior Div.) 18. Attached to Varanasi HQ from 11-05-23 19. Civil Judge (Junior Div.)(FTC) 20. Civil Judge (Junior Div.)(FTC)

Commissioner sends ACP-Crime on leave LUDHIANA: Commissioner of Police RN Dhoke has asked ACP-Crime Maninder Bedi to proceed on leave till further orders and deputed ADCP-Crime Paramjit Singh Pannu to thoroughly investigate as to why Bedi lodged a “false” FIR against SAD leader Gurpreet Singh Babbal. Shivani Bhakoo Tribune News Service Ludhiana, June 25 Commissioner of Police RN Dhoke has asked ACP-Crime Maninder Bedi to proceed on leave till further orders and deputed ADCP-Crime Paramjit Singh Pannu to thoroughly investigate as to why Bedi lodged a “false” FIR against SAD leader Gurpreet Singh Babbal. Dhoke said Bedi played a “biased role” while registering a case against the Akali leader and it would be investigated whether he (Bedi) did it for money, under political influence or for share in property, which is embroiled in controversy. Talking to The Tribune, Dhoke said he had asked the SHO concerned to write to the SDM to take custody of the property (a piece of 400 square yard in Sarabha Nagar) and see to it that it is transferred to its real claimant by the authorities. “We cannot register FIRs like that. People trust us and we have to come up to their expectations,” said Dhoke. He also cancelled the FIR against Babbal lodged at the Sarabha Nagar police station. “The FIR has been cancelled,” he said. There are allegations that Babbal shielded gangster Sukha Barewalia (who was arrested recently). Following the arrest of Barewalia, cases under various sections were reg...