A Punjab and Haryana High Court Bench on Monday recused itself from hearing the Moga bus molestation case in which a teenage girl died after being allegedly thrown off a bus.
The High Court had taken suo motu cognisance of a letter written to it regarding the incident.
The crime took place on Thursday. The girl and her mother were allegedly molested and thrown off a bus belonging to Orbit Aviation which is owned by relatives of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. As the matter came up for hearing before the Division Bench of Justices Satish Kumar Mittal and Harinder Singh Sidhu, it withdrew from the matter and referred it to the Chief Justice to be assigned to some other Bench. No reason was given for the decision.
Now the Acting Chief Justice will decide which Bench will take up the case.
