{"id":173290,"date":"2009-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sri-s-p-nagaraj-vs-the-state-of-karnataka-on-27-may-2009"},"modified":"2015-07-07T06:51:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T01:21:20","slug":"sri-s-p-nagaraj-vs-the-state-of-karnataka-on-27-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/sri-s-p-nagaraj-vs-the-state-of-karnataka-on-27-may-2009","title":{"rendered":"Sri S P Nagaraj vs The State Of Karnataka on 27 May, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sri S P Nagaraj vs The State Of Karnataka on 27 May, 2009<\/div>\n
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