A land’s ownership is determined in the courts of law and not in the fields through the clang of swords or the echoes of firearms, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has held. Justice Namit Kumar has added that the moment a person takes justice in his own hands, "he ceases to seek it".

Justice Kumar also made it clear that the act of taking law into one’s own hands by attacking people with weapons to forcibly seize possession of land “cannot be permitted in an agriculturist State like Punjab.”

The assertions came as the Bench dismissed an anticipatory bail plea in an attempt to murder case registered following alleged attempt to take forcible possession of disputed properties, while observing that conduct – if left unchecked – would corrode the rule of law and the very faith of people in

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