Badals’ ‘conflict of interest’ echoes in HC

Two months after the business interests of the Badals came under the judicial scanner with an anonymous writer questioning the permissibility of elected representatives owning commercial ventures, the issue echoed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court once again. As the case came up for resumed hearing, amicus curiae or the friend of the court, advocate HC Arora, made it clear that he intended to file a petition in public interest exclusively on the issue of “conflict of interest” arising out of “substantial shares of Orbit Aviations and other private transport companies owned by Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal”.