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The Punjab and Haryana High Court stayed communications from the Mohali district administration asking private schools to deploy teachers for Census duty, according to Hindustan Times.

• The order came on a plea from the Mohali private unaided schools association against deployment.
• The court observed that statutory provisions do not prima facie include teachers exclusively employed in private unaided schools.

The court posted the matter for further hearing on February 10, 2027.

The Supreme Court set aside a Patna High Court order that had cancelled criminal proceedings against a man accused of murder in a boy's drowning death.

• The top court noted that two witnesses saw the accused fleeing from the scene.
• The accused had taken the boy from his home for a walk on May 12, 2020.

The court stated that a postmortem report showing drowning cannot automatically be treated as a natural accident without investigating surrounding circumstances.