A two-judge panel of the Supreme Court withdrew from considering the plea of an accused person who was the daughter of a former high court judge and was connected to the 2015 Chandigarh shooting death of Sukhmanpreet Singh, also known as Sippy Sidhu.

Because the case involved the daughter of a former judge, the vacation bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma stated they were not inclined to hear it.

They requested that the matter be listed before a different vacation bench the following week. “List the matter before a bench in which both of us are not members,” they said.

Senior attorney Siddharth Dave stated on behalf of petitioner Kalyani Singh that they had appealed to the Supreme Court against the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s April 25 ruling, which turned down her request for the provision of witness statements taken by the Chandigarh Police.

He said that after the Chandigarh Police initially looked into the case, it was turned over to the CBI, which then filed the charge sheet and framed the charges.

He stated, “We want the witness statements that the Chandigarh Police initially recorded so that we can cross-examine them during the trial.” He also mentioned that the high court had denied the petitioner’s request, stating that the prosecution had not relied on these documents.

Nonsuiting is the act of a lawsuit being stopped before it is started, either by the plaintiff’s voluntary withdrawal or the judge’s determination that the plaintiff has not presented enough evidence or a strong enough case.