CHANDIGARH, June 05: : Just days after the Punjab and Haryana high court administration recommended compulsory retirement of Tejwinder Singh, judicial responsibilities have been withdrawn from him.
Singh, one of Punjab's senior-most district and sessions Judges, was serving as the presiding officer of the industrial tribunal in Patiala.
As per rules, the decision to compulsorily retire Tejwinder Singh would be notified by the Punjab govt.
Singh had first come into limelight in June 2019, when he had convicted six persons in the infamous Kathua rape and murder case. While three were awarded life sentence, other three accused were given five-year jail terms.
The trial was conducted in his court after the Supreme Court had shifted the case from Kathua to Pathankot, where he was posted as the district and sessions judge.
Singh joined the Punjab Judicial services in 1991 at the age of 23 and made it to the 1993 edition of the Limca Book of World Records for being India's youngest magistrate.
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