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The Punjab and Haryana High Court has asked the Punjab government to explain its "highhandedness" in arresting journalist, Rajinder Singh Taggar in connection with a defamation and extortion case registered for publishing a news story against a real estate firm [Rajinder Singh Taggar V. State of Punjab].