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Punjab HC pulls up India's Foreign Secretary
on Turban issue
WSN Network
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High
Court on Tuesday issued notice for July 5 to India's foreign
secretary Shiv Shankar Menon to show cause as to why proceedings
under the Contempt of Court Act be not initiated against him for
defying court’s directions to file a reply to the writ petition of
Chandigarh-based Singh Legal Foundation for protecting the rights of
Indian citizens abroad in context of restriction on wearing of
turban by Sikh students in France.
The notice was issued by the division bench of chief justice
Vijender Jain and justice Mahesh Grover after hearing the
petitioner’s counsel on the plea moved for fixing advance date of
contempt petition which the single judge without looking into the
urgency of the case, had ordered to be heard by this bench along
with the main writ petition.
It was argued that unless the CJ directs it to be heard by a larger
bench, contempt petitions are to be heard by the single judge. It
was listed before justice Hement Gupta on May 17 who ordered it to
be heard by the division bench. This view, the counsel submitted,
was contrary to the law laid down by the apex court in a case in
1997.
30 May, 2007
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