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Court intervention for probe sought

By Our Legal Correspondent

NEW DELHI, APRIL 20. The Supreme Court has been moved to probe the mass casual leave taken by Judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday.

The petitioners, S.S. Dahiya and R.K. Rathore, advocates, in their petition submitted that in an unprecedented action, 26 sitting Judges of the Punjab and Haryana High Court had collectively applied for leave from April 19 for reasons best known to them. (Today, all the Judges reported for work after the Supreme Court intervened).

They said the Judges' action had shaken the confidence of the citizens and that such an action amounted to a strike.

Describing it as an unprecedented incident that had happened in the Indian judiciary, the petitioners sought a direction to the Registrar of the High Court to submit all the records pertaining to the incident.

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