The Punjab and Haryana High Court said a litigant cannot be permitted to "pick and choose" which judicial findings to respect based on their own subjective convenience. (AI-generated image) Punjab and Haryana High Court news: The Punjab and Haryana High Court recently refused to quash criminal proceedings against a man accused of fabricating documents to illegally grab an NRI family’s land, holding that attempts to seek quashing of an FIR immediately after the rejection of anticipatory bail amounted to a “hit-and-try stratagem” and a “second bite at the apple.” Justice Sumeet Goel also imposed a cost of Rs 5,000 on the petitioner, observing that permitting such a course would not only erode the “sanctity” of judicial proceedings but would also encourage litigants to indulge in “speculative and successive litigation”. Justice Sumeet Goel emphasised that a litigant who stands in defiance of the law cannot be permitted to seek its protection.…