The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday disposed of a public interest litigation that flagged delays in issuing registration certificates (RCs) and driving licences (DLs) to vehicle owners in Punjab, after the state informed the court that it had cleared a massive backlog created earlier this year.

The matter came up before the Division Bench of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry. Appearing for Punjab, counsel Salil Sabhlok submitted a status report stating that the backlog was triggered by the “sudden exit” of the state’s earlier empanelled vendor responsible for printing RCs and DLs. The department, he said, activated its fallback plan to begin in-house printing and subsequently awarded the work to two National Informatics Centre Services Inc (NICSI)-empanelled Gov

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