{"id":15108,"date":"2009-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/punjab-pardesh-tea-merchants-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-15-april-2009"},"modified":"2017-10-16T18:42:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T13:12:59","slug":"punjab-pardesh-tea-merchants-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-15-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/punjab-pardesh-tea-merchants-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-15-april-2009","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Pardesh Tea Merchants &#8230; vs State Of Punjab And Others on 15 April, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Punjab-Haryana High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Punjab Pardesh Tea Merchants &#8230; vs State Of Punjab And Others on 15 April, 2009<\/div>\n<pre>     IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT\n                     CHANDIGARH.\n\n                    C.M. No. 6247 of 2009 in\/and\n                      C.W.P. No. 6018 of 2001\n\n                   Date of Decision: April 15, 2009\n\nPunjab Pardesh Tea Merchants Association\n                                                          ...Petitioner\n                                Versus\nState of Punjab and others\n                                                        ...Respondents\n\n\n\nCORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.M. KUMAR\n\n             HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE H.S. BHALLA\n\nPresent:     Mr. Ashish Gupta, Advocate,\n             for the applicant-petitioner.\n\n1.    Whether Reporters of local papers may be\n      allowed to see the judgment?\n2.    To be referred to the Reporters or not?\n3.    Whether the judgment should be reported in\n      the Digest?\n\n\nM.M. KUMAR, J.\n<\/pre>\n<p>             Notice of the application.<\/p>\n<p>             Mr. Piyush Kant Jain, Addl. AG, Punjab, who is present<\/p>\n<p>in the Court, accepts notice.<\/p>\n<p>             The prayer made in the application is for withdrawal of<\/p>\n<p>the petition, to which no objection has been raised. Accordingly, writ<\/p>\n<p>petition is dismissed as withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>                                                      (M.M. KUMAR)<br \/>\n                                                         JUDGE<\/p>\n<p>                                                      (H.S. BHALLA)<br \/>\n<span class=\"hidden_text\">                          2<\/span><\/p>\n<p>April 15, 2009   JUDGE<\/p>\n<p>Pkapoor\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab-Haryana High Court Punjab Pardesh Tea Merchants &#8230; vs State Of Punjab And Others on 15 April, 2009 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.M. No. 6247 of 2009 in\/and C.W.P. No. 6018 of 2001 Date of Decision: April 15, 2009 Punjab Pardesh Tea Merchants Association &#8230;Petitioner Versus State of Punjab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-court","category-punjab-haryana-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Punjab Pardesh Tea Merchants ... vs State Of Punjab And Others on 15 April, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/punjab-pardesh-tea-merchants-vs-state-of-punjab-and-others-on-15-april-2009\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punjab Pardesh Tea Merchants ... vs State Of Punjab And Others on 15 April, 2009 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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