{"id":132800,"date":"2008-08-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/jasvir-singh-and-others-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-22-august-2008"},"modified":"2018-01-02T20:10:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T14:40:05","slug":"jasvir-singh-and-others-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-22-august-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/jasvir-singh-and-others-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-22-august-2008","title":{"rendered":"Jasvir Singh And Others vs State Of Punjab And Others on 22 August, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Jasvir Singh And Others vs State Of Punjab And Others on 22 August, 2008<\/div>\n<pre>      IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT\n                     CHANDIGARH.\n\n                                                   C.W.P. No. 13826 of 2008\n                                          DATE OF DECISION : 22.08.2008\n\nJasvir Singh and others\n                                                            .... PETITIONERS\n                                    Versus\nState of Punjab and others\n\n                                                         ..... RESPONDENTS\n\nCORAM :- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL\n             HON'BLE MRS. JUSTICE DAYA CHAUDHARY\n\n\nPresent:     Mr. Mansur Ali, Advocate,\n             for the petitioners.\n\n                          ***\n<\/pre>\n<p>SATISH KUMAR MITTAL , J. ( Oral )<\/p>\n<p>             The petitioners have filed this petition under Articles 226\/227<\/p>\n<p>of the Constitution of India, for setting aside the election of respondent<\/p>\n<p>No.5 as Sarpanch of Gram Panchayat, Village Nagar, Block Sanour, Tehsil<\/p>\n<p>and District Patiala, being illegal null and void, on the ground that he<\/p>\n<p>wrongly got declared himself as Sarpanch, despite the fact that on the first<\/p>\n<p>meeting, the quorum of 2\/3rd members, as required under Section 13-A of<\/p>\n<p>the Punjab Panchayati Raj Act, 1994, was not complete. It has been further<\/p>\n<p>alleged that by fraud, respondent No.5 took the signatures of petitioner No.2<\/p>\n<p>on the proceeding book.\n<\/p>\n<p>             After arguing for some time, counsel for the petitioners states<\/p>\n<p>that in view of the disputed questions of facts raised in this writ petition and<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\"> CWP No. 13826 of 2008                                                   -2-<\/span><\/p>\n<p>further in view of the decision of this Court in Baljit Singh v. State of<\/p>\n<p>Punjab and others (CWP No. 13643 of 2008, decided on August 22, 2008),<\/p>\n<p>wherein it has been held that in view of Clause (b) of Article 243-O of the<\/p>\n<p>Constitution of India and Section 76 of the Punjab State Election Act, 1994<\/p>\n<p>(hereinafter referred to as `the Act&#8217;), election of Sarpanch is to be challenged<\/p>\n<p>by filing an election petition under section 76 on the grounds mentioned in<\/p>\n<p>Section 89 of the Act, the petitioners may be permitted to withdraw this<\/p>\n<p>petition with liberty to avail the remedy of election petition.<\/p>\n<p>             Dismissed as withdrawn with the aforesaid liberty.\n<\/p>\n<p>             However, if the election petition is filed by the petitioners in<\/p>\n<p>accordance with law, the Election Tribunal is directed to decide the same<\/p>\n<p>expeditiously.<\/p>\n<pre>\n\n\n                                         ( SATISH KUMAR MITTAL )\n                                                  JUDGE\n\n\nAugust 22, 2008                             ( DAYA CHAUDHARY )\nndj                                                JUDGE\n <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Jasvir Singh And Others vs State Of Punjab And Others on 22 August, 2008 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. 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