Bifurcation of Punjab and Haryana High Court put off

Ambala, Thursday, September 28, 1967

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From Our Staff Reporter

Chandigarh, Sept. 27

The Chief Ministers of Punjab and Haryana have agreed to defer the bifurcation of the Punjab and Haryana High Court until the future of Chandigarh is settled. 

Informing this in a letter to Mr. Shir Chand Goyal, M.P. (Jan Sangh), the Union Home Minister, Mr. Y.B. Chavan, has said that in view of this the bifurcation of the High Court has been postponed for the present.

Mr. Chavan has also said that the work to divide the High Court was undertaken because the Chief Ministers of the two States had earlier asked for it. 

The letter which was received here today was in reply to the one which Mr. Goyal had written to Mr. Chavan. In his letter Mr. Goyal had said that he was told that the Punjab and the Haryana Governments had been asked to take their High Courts to places within their respective territories. 

Mr. Goyal had also said that the removal of the High Courts would cause great hardship to the advocates who had been twice uprooted, because no town either in Haryana or in Punjab could provide suitable housing accommodation to them. The bifurcation should, therefore, be deferred till the future of Chandigarh was decided.