Noting with concern the administrative indifference to human distress, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has observed that government functionaries time and again show “persistent and unwarranted apathy and insensitivity” while dealing with employees, pensioners and the marginalised in need of urgent relief. The Bench also made it clear that practical implementation of litigation policies framed by the two States would have resulted in expeditious disposal of issues already settled.

Justice Harpreet Singh Brar asserted that the constitutional philosophy prioritised human dignity above all else and the State, as well as its instrumentalities, were “expected to conduct themselves in a manner that aligns with the same.”

“In that vein, the administrative machinery must function as the custod

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