Summary:
A split verdict by the Punjab and Haryana High Court Thursday provided temporary relief to senior Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda as the Haryana government was restrained from publishing the Dhingra Commission report on alleged irregularities in the grant of land-use licences during the rule of the former chief minister. But due to the pendency of the litigation against it, the report had not been made public till date. Justice Mittal held the report to be “non est” (does not exist) and ordered that it not be published. The only question is: Do those allegations, if honestly believed, constitute a definite matter of public importance? The cleanliness of public life in which the public should be vitally interested, must be a definite matter of public importance,” the division bench said..