Won’t interfere with High Court order staying Barjinder Singh Hamdard’s arrest: Supreme Court

New Delhi, July 15

The Supreme Court on Monday refused to interfere with the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s order staying the arrest of former Rajya Sabha member and Ajit Group of Publications Managing Editor Barjinder Singh Hamdard in a cheating and corruption case registered by the Vigilance Bureau at Jalandhar.

A Bench led by Justice MM Sundresh, however, asked the HC, which is scheduled to take up the matter on July 18, to decide it expeditiously. The case relates to the construction and running of Jang-e-Azadi Memorial in Jalandhar.

The HC had also issued a notice to the CBI as Hamdard wanted the case to be transferred to an independent agency. He alleged that he had been falsely implicated in it to compel him to succumb to the government pressure and publish their paid news/advertisements “in the form of news articles and thereby forgo his ethics in a bid of the state to spread misinformation and influence the electorate”.