Ludhiana blast: Punjab and Haryana High Court calls for details of security measures

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 23

The Punjab and Haryana High Court — within hours of the blast in the Ludhiana courts complex — called for information from all district and sessions Judges in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh on four counts.

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The judges were asked to forward suggestions for “effective maintenance of security in the court complexes and residences.” In a communiqué, High Court Registrar-General Sanjiv Berry asked all district and sessions judges to specify whether frisking of entrants to the court complex was carried out ‘regularly and at all times’, whether the CCTV cameras in the complexes were operational and if there were any shortcomings in the security arrangements. Justice Augustine George Masih, a judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court and inspecting Judge of the Ludhiana sessions division, also visited the Ludhiana courts complex.