THE PUNJAB and Haryana Excessive Courtroom has directed for registering a legal contempt towards a Chandigarh-based lady who in a Public Curiosity Litigation (PIL) alleged that Punjab Police was operating an extortion enterprise below the patronage of a sitting HC decide.
The division Bench of Performing Chief Justice GS Sandhawalia and Justice Lapita Banerji mentioned the costs are “contemptuous and it’s an effort to scandalise the popularity of the Courtroom”.
Observing that Roma Rani’s petition has “no benefit”, the bench directed the workplace “to register a legal contempt towards the petitioner and place it earlier than the bench dealing with the issues in order that discover could be issued and the petitioner could be prosecuted for the scandalous averments made within the petition”.
Roma Rani, who was arrested for trafficking minors below totally different sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Juvenile Justice (Care and Safety of Youngsters) Act 2015 had filed the PIL by means of counsel HBS Baidwan.
The petitioner had sought instructions to the Punjab authorities to challenge tips “to tame public servants who’ve stepped out of their jurisdictions in order that they’ll truthfully serve”.
The plea additionally sought instructions to quash the legal continuing towards the petitioner stating that she was implicated in a trafficking case, at the same time as she was a whistle-blower having safety below the Whistle Blowers Act 2011.
The petitioner alleged that the HC decide was favouring the wrongdoer and granted bail to him within the matter. After listening to the submissions, the bench rejected the petition.